Re: Bitmap, Pixmap, Image and Pixbuf madness

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

"Bill.Haneman" <Bill Haneman ireland sun com> writes: 
> At this point I'd like to mention that we (folks working on 
> GTK accessibility) think there is a need to provide some sort
> of labelling for GtkImage, since within the community of
> pepole working on accessibility (technology vendors, developers,
> etc.) there is a consensus that every image/pixmap in a UI that 
> conveys information needs to have a non-visual alternate
> channel.
> 
> So it would be really helpful if a "label" property (in addition
> to the longer descriptive ToolTip which I think is already 
> possible to attach to a GtkImage ?) were available in GtkImage.
> Then a couple of instantiation macros to make it easy on the
> developer would complete the picture (pardon the pun)
> 

Is this GtkImage-specific, or would you maybe want labels on other
widgets as well?

Havoc