Re: Gnopernicus and Glade

[Bill Haneman <bill haneman sun com>]

Hi John:

I have confirmed that gnopernicus and glade are "talking to one another"
when glade runs, and that the basic infrastructure for the accessibility
APIs is there.   I suppose that's a testament to the "built in" nature
of GNOME accessibility, since there has been no effort to date in
tweaking glade to make it really usable with gnopernicus; to be honest
it's pretty far down on the wish list.  Since it's a rather specialized
application glade will need that bit of tweaking (whereas a more
'vanilla' gtk+ application might mostly work as-is).  I agree that a
fully accessible glade will be a significant milestone, but we've
prioritized the basic desktop and 'office' stuff before GUI developer
tools, generally.  Most of us GNOME developers use emacs more often than
glade :-)

That said, I am CC'ing glade's maintainer Damon Chaplin, who has been
very helpful in the past.  Perhaps it's not too soon to start adding
names to the nameless icons, adding tooltips (which would give us
accessible-descriptions), and doing a few tweaks to the canvas to make
it more fully accessible.  Also, I am not sure about the current state
of keyboard navigation for glade - Damon ?

regards,

Bill

On Thu, 2003-04-10 at 04:46, John J. Boyer wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> In its present state, would Gnopernicus be of much help in working with 
> Glade? When it does work smoothly with Glade, it will have reached the 
> point of usability as far as I am concerned. Then I can use it to do some 
> serious programming for Gnome. Of course, it must also work with gedit, 
> nautilus, etc.
> 
> John
> 
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