Re: [orca-list] what is ROLE_DIAL?

[Jason White <jason jasonjgw net>]

Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs igalia com> wrote:
> A dial is a circular value-setting widget. What it buys you over a
> slider, other than roundness, I could not tell you. But it's in the Qt
> widget demos and Orca was failing to present it.

I suppose QT could just have mapped it to "slider" before forwarding it to
AT-SPI, but from a design point of view I think it's better for the user to
know that it's a dial rather than a slider, even though they're functionally
indistinguishable.