Re: A11y always-on in gnome-shell and GTK+ (was Re: A11y always-on in gnome-shell)

On Mon, 18 Jun 2012, Mike Gorse wrote:

>> Strange, I thought that it was already the case, atk-bridge not
>> registering to any event (key snooping included) unless one client is
>> listening.
>> 
>> Mike, could you confirm that?
>
> It probably should be doing this, but, alas, it isn't. Right now atk-bridge

Actually, I was misremembering; it is doing this already, sort of. If no 
AT clients are listening, then it does disable most event listeners, 
including keystroke listeners, but it is all or nothing (if a client 
registers either an event or a keystroke listener, then applications are 
notified that a client has registered, so all listeners get registered, 
meaning that keystroke listeners get activated even if a client has only 
registered event listeners, which isn't ideal.)