Re: [Usability] GTK+ at the UX Hackfest

[Piñeiro <apinheiro igalia com>]

From: Cosimo Cecchi <cosimoc gnome org>

> On Mon, 2010-03-01 at 16:44 +0100, Piñeiro wrote:
> 
>> In the gtk side, I don't know much about the XSettings, but I suppose
>> that you are talking more general, and XSetting will manage all the
>> gtk modules to be loaded (engines, and so on). So XSettings would have
>> the lists of modules instead of the envvar, and inform to the
>> applications that this setting has changed. In this case is just
>> load/unload the a11y modules as any other gtk modules.
> 
> AFAIK GTK+ already reads the XSettings variable and loads modules
> accordingly in gtk_init(). The filling of that property is currently
> done by gnome-settings-daemon.

Yes, you are right, I have just made a quick search, thanks.

Probably people like Mathias Clasen, Li Yuan and Willie Walker knows
more about xsettings and a11y relation. After another quick search on
the bugzilla, I found some interesting (and resolved) bugs about this
issue:

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=535827
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=565110
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=563943

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