Re: request to apply fix for gtktreeview accessibility

["Elijah Newren" <newren gmail com>]

On 3/10/06, Bill Haneman <Bill Haneman sun com> wrote:
> Hi:
>
> In an attempt to fix bug 326362
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=326362
>
> an incorrect fix was applied to gailtreeview.c on about Feb 21.  This
> caused a serious regression which makes Gnome-2.14 useless to blind
> users.
>
> We have identified the problem with the original fix, and have traced
> the root cause of the crash to gtk+.  In both cases we have one-line
> code changes which revert the incorrect fix to gail, and which prevent
> the gtk+ segfault.
>
> I am requesting permission to apply the following two patches.  In
> particular I would like permission to apply the gail patch, which
> reverts the bad fix; however it seems reasonable to apply a more correct
> fix (to gtk+) at the same time.  If the gtk+ team would rather do the
> latter, that's fine by me.

Ouch, looks pretty bad.  But the solution looks small and safe and it
appears that Matthias has commented on the bug to say as much about
the gtk patch.  So, approval 1 of 2 from me.