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

[Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs igalia com>]

Hey Kendell.

Phew! BTW, it's not entirely noise because in looking into it, I found
that MATE has a hard-coded reference to our .desktop file which no
longer exists. They will want to change that. And given that I'm
creating a custom impress script at the moment and am also not a MATE
user, it might be worth your reporting this bug to them (filed against
mate-control-center). If you do so, you might want to also point out to
them that some (if not all) of their other hard-coded desktop-file
arguments are outdated and likely broken. When I run mate-control-center
in Fedora 24, the mobility combo box is completely empty because of
those outdated references.

--joanie

On 07/21/2016 07:46 PM, coffeeking wrote:
> 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
>
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