Re: [g-a-devel] GnomeClient replacement?

[Frederic Crozat <fcrozat mandriva com>]

Le mercredi 26 juillet 2006 à 09:05 -0400, Matthias Clasen a écrit :
> On 7/26/06, Fernando Herrera <fherrera onirica com> wrote:
> > Humm I'm seeing a problem here. What about GNOME/GTK+ applications
> > launched  outside a gnome-session? (for example people using KDE).
> >
> > They won't get the gtk-modules XSETTING and then they won't be accesible at all.
> >
> > I guess that the solution that Kristian pointed (gtk loading auto
> > loading "runtime modules"  provided by the platform) may solve this
> > problem:
> >
> > - gtk_init --> load_init_modules:
> >    - gnome a11y module --> Check a11y gconf key --> load gail and friends
> >    - bug-buddy module --> install segv handler.
> >
> > the downside of this method is that if we have installed gnome a11y
> > modules then we are adding a little bit of overhead to only-gtk
> > applications (loading gnome-module because it is installed, loading
> > gconf, checking a11y).
> >
> 
> GTK+ programs running outside a session can either fall back to the
> GTK_MODULES envvar or use an xsettings manager even if they
> are running under, say, KDE. That was the initial idea of xsettings
> anyway, and I believe there is a xsettings manager for KDE that
> some distributions use.

xsettings-kde : ugly hack but it works not so bad.. I might add
accessibility in it too but I need to check if KDE has some
accessibility key.

http://cvs.mandriva.com/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/soft/xsettings-kde/

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Frederic Crozat <fcrozat mandriva com>
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