Hello, Can I join in with a slightly different point of view? This step by the SuSE development team is fantastic. I'm really happy to see that time has been put in to porting Yast over to GTK but you've missed one of the main benefits to a lot of users of Gnome. Accessibility. Gnome is the only window manager in SuSE that is accessible to the blind and visually impaired. Yast because of it's almost full dependents on QT leaves a possibly large user base out in the cold as they are fourced to continue to depend on the text version.
When I first heard of this GTK version of Yast I was delighted! Today however, I hear that for some unknown reason, the developers have used old GTK Wigits that do not contain any accessibility properties therefore in SuSE 10.2, I along with countless other visually impaired users will be left in the cold again. It is very unfortunate that the developers have gone down this road. When are we going to see equal access in SUSE? I have to say well done for employing someone who works on accessibility issues full time but why don't you put him to some use. Consult him when your writing new applications. Make your software more accessibility aware. It's not difficult! Thanks. That's my rant over. I mean it though. I am really angry that SuSE is still not making their very comprehensive and powerful package manager accessible. There are dozens if not hundreds of possible contributors and testers out there, make use of them before you release a product. Not after... Darragh On 10/09/2007, Stanislav Visnovsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dňa Monday 10 September 2007 13:28:27 Mark Goldstein ste napísal: > > Hi, > > > > On 9/10/07, Rodrigo Moya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > reading this it looks like us (the GNOME people working on SuSE) are > > > evil :-) But the reason was not to not use QT, that's a very poor > > > reason. The real reason is UI integration, that is, even though the QT > > > version of yast works very well (I've been using it for years), it > > > looked so different to the rest of GTK apps that they were not > > > consistent at all. And given that Yast provides a way to write different > > > frontends, that seemed to be the best option. > > > > Why not to adjust it according to the desktop used? For Gnome users > > the default would be Gnome UI and for KDE users Qt? > > (And also let the user chose preferable UI from some configuration > menu...) > > That's exactly what is done in 10.3. The discussion is about a different > topic - how the different UIs match. > > Stano > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
