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

[coffeeking <coffeekingms gmail com>]

hi

Ah ok, I'm glad to be wrong. I wrote the email mainly because orca no 
longer shows up in mate's assistive technologies dialog box under 
visual, so I thought it might not be able to start it, but I'm glad to 
be wrong and it works. I've verified for myself that it does in fact 
work, sorry for the noise.



On 7/20/2016 11:36 PM, Joanmarie Diggs wrote:
> Hey all.
>
> On 07/20/2016 09:20 PM, Luke Yelavich wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > 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