2013/5/8 Thompson, David <[email protected]>
> Perhaps we should set some specific goals for improving the accessibility
> of lxpanel. I think a great start would be if it was possible to focus on
> the panel and press the tab key through the icons in the panel.
> Would anyone be able to provide some information on how to get started
> with this task, assuming little knowledge of lxpanel's source code?
>
> This might be a bit tricky from what I remember in the lxpanel's source.
Essentially, everything on the panel is a plugin.
So the first step would be to switch focus from plugin to plugin on
tab-press.
The second step will involve stepping through contents of a given plugin,
if applicable.
What I mean by that is: when a user wants to launch firefox, he or she
would have to tab through to the launcher plugin *and then* tab through to
the firefox button.
Implementation of such functionality isn't trivial, but I don't think it
would be too difficult.
Because the goal is accessibility (and hence reaching a wider audience with
LXDE), it would definitely be worth-while.
I haven't had the time to even apply the suggestions given on the list to
finish the weather plugin, so, even though I'd like to, I'm not
volunteering for the job.
There are some great ideas on this list - including moving to Qt due to the
GNOME crew destroying GTK.
Thanks to PCMan and Andriy (and others) for continued contributions!
Piotr
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