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

[Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs igalia com>]

Hey all.

On 07/20/2016 09:20 PM, Luke Yelavich wrote:

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> This is a long handed way to say that the desktop file that has been removed 
> from Orca master is not needed for Mate.

This is my conclusion too. As you already pointed out, Orca already
starts automatically in MATE as expected thanks to it's autostart file.
I verified this works using Orca master and MATE in Fedora 24.

However, it looks like they have one change to make in MATE: As Kendell
mentioned, mate-control-center has a dialog in which you can establish
the preferred AT for specific needs by choosing your preference from a
list of choices. For "Mobility" the choices are Dasher, GOK, and
Onboard. For "Visual" there is exactly one choice: Orca. They are
populating those combo boxes by calling fill_list_from_desktop_file()
with hard-coded desktop file names. They'll need to adjust that.

--joanie