Re: [orca-list] removal of orca's .desktop file could potentially break mate

[Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs igalia com>]

Hi Kendell.

That the menu item went away is not surprising. MATE menu items belong
in MATE and that should be fixed there; not in Orca.

As for listening for the MATE settings, I'll take a look.
--joanie

On 07/20/2016 07:14 PM, kendell clark wrote:
> hi all
> Latest orca master removes orca's .desktop file since gnome and unity
> don't need it. But this could, I'm not positive yet, break mate's
> ability to start it when it's accessibility settings are enabled. I've
> checked in system>preferences>personal>assistive technologies, and orca
> no longer shows up under the "visual" setting as it used to. If you're
> going to make orca listen to gsettings, which makes sense, then you need
> to have it listen to not only gnome's accessibility settings but to
> mate's as well. I believe that's found at
> org.mate.desktop.a11y.applications. The key is the same as gnome uses,
> screen-reader-enabled.  This isn't as critical as I'm probably making it
> out to be because the latest version of mate listens to gnome's
> accessibility gsettings and if it notices that orca is turned on, it
> turns orca on for mate as well, so this whole email might be for
> nothing. But I'm not sure, and that's why I'm writing it. Smarter people
> than me can figure out for sure or not. And now for some afternoon
> coffee. Forgive the abruptness, I'm feeling decaffeinated.
>
> Thanks
> Kendell Clark
>
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