Re: GNOME 2.16.2 Released!

[Vincent Untz <vuntz gnome org>]

Hi Bill,

Le jeudi 23 novembre 2006, à 10:24, Bill Haneman a écrit :
> 
> Vincent Untz wrote On 11/23/06 00:38,:
> 
> >Le jeudi 23 novembre 2006, à 01:30, Vincent Untz a écrit :
> >+ a11y is totally broken with at-spi 1.7.13. I should probably say: the
> >  desktop is broken when a11y is turned on. I don't have the error
> >  anymore (I should have kept the .xsession-errors around, sorry), but
> >  downgrading to 1.7.12 works fine, so I released with this at-spi
> >  version. Since the only change is about registryd, it shouldn't be
> >  too hard to find it.
> > 
> >
> Possibly 2.16.2 was released with a version of gnome-session that 
> doesn't include the corresponding changes to the way at-spi-registryd is 
> launched.  If so, that would explain the problem (there's a bug reported 
> that atk-bridge does not fail gracefully if the registry was not 
> launched by the session as expected).   Fix would be to either 
> retroactively branch at-spi for gnome-2.17 or to backport the 
> gnome-session patch to the 2.16 branch (assuming that the session patch 
> didn't get applied to both branches when previously committed).

The gnome-session change was only committed to 2.17 since it's quite an
important change and it's not reasonable to make this change during a
stable cycle (IMHO).

I guess a retroactive branch for at-spi would be my preferred option :-)
It's not urgent for now.

Thanks for the quick reply!

Vincent

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