On Nov 11, 2008, at 02:38 , Brian J. Tarricone wrote: > Quiring, Sam wrote: >> Greetings, >> >> I am exploring the at-spi accessibility interface on Ubuntu. I >> created >> a simple dump program that displays data about the accessible >> components >> on my desktop. Thunar is running on my desktop. My dump program >> displays everything in the Thunar window, except it cannot find any >> data >> about the table of files in either "Detailed List" view or the "Icon" >> view. I have not tried the "Compact List" view. The dump program is >> able to dump information in the table cells for the Thunar Shortcuts >> side pane, so I am confident that the dumper is working. >> >> I first posted a query to the accessibility mailing list and they >> asked >> if the Thunar widgets used to display the content of the file view >> were >> possibly custom widgets? The point of that question is that all >> stock >> gtk+ widgets have accessibility info, if someone wrote a custom >> widget >> the accessibility info might not be working yet. >> >> So I thought I'd ask the Thunar developers about the state of >> accessibility. > > Yup, Thunar does indeed use custom widgets for the tree view and icon > view at least. I'm surprised Benny didn't add even some accessibility > support; I know I've seen code from him before that's done this.
I worked on a11y support for ExoIconView, and it did even work to some degree, but I couldn't get it to work properly due to various gtk bugs IIRC, hence I dropped it from libexo. The tree view should work just fine, it's just a stupid GtkTreeView. > -brian Benedikt _______________________________________________ Thunar-dev mailing list Thunar-dev@xfce.org http://foo-projects.org/mailman/listinfo/thunar-dev