Sorry for the cross-posting, but not sure about the best list to send this.
Background: AFAIK, clutter-gtk was always a proof of concept library. It was not really used by any core module, and the plans towards Gtk4 with respect to integrate gtk with clutter [1] basically announced his future death. For that reason, although it was on in my personal TODO, I never allocated too much time to fix the a11y aspects of that library. But, as it is not clear when that gtk-clutter integration will happen, some modules planned to use it towards GNOME 3.8. The poster boy there was gnome-documents, so suddenly that item increased its priority. Taking into account that there are just two weeks till freeze [2], my idea was use any of my spare time on clutter-gtk a11y. But today, talking with Cosimo, he mentioned that he dropped clutter-gtk dependency, and that probably other modules will follow. In case of someone wondering how much work adding a11y support on clutter-gtk is, after some research and IRC chatting with Emmanuele, it is doable but not trivial (anyway 3.8 is really near, so getting it finished during these two weeks would be complex, probably it would be postponed till 3.10). But sincerely, I'm not sure if all this really worth any effort at all. It is basically deprecated, recently dropped by some modules, and probably will be dropped soon by others. I only can think on Boxes as a module that doesn't have plans for that. And sincerely there are other places to put our any kind of a11y developing effort. In that sense, and looking to this problem from a different POV, one could argue that as there are already reasons to not use clutter-gtk, we could just say that "not having a11y support" is just another reason to not use it, and that the a11y team do not plan to solve that aspect on that support because clutter-gtk it is barely used. Doubts, doubts everywhere. So, I'm writing this mail to ask the opinion of others. Questions like, how relevant do you see clutter-gtk on the GNOME short-medium term? How many maintainers of core-apps plans to use it? Do someone thinks that using any kind of developing time on clutter-gtk really worths? BR [1] https://www.desktopsummit.org/program/sessions/gtk-4-future-your-favorite-toolkit [2] https://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2013-February/msg00024.html -- Alejandro Piñeiro Iglesias _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
