Re: Enabling accessibility stack by default in Gtk2

Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.devel.gtk-gnome,gmane.linux.debian.devel.accessibility
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 30/08/15 18:19, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> As discussed at DebConf [1,2,3], we would like to make the accessibility
> stack enabled by default, so that all a user who needs it has to do is
> just to start orca (while at the moment she has to find an option in
> the control panel, and logout/login again, thus closing all running
> applications...).
> 
> This is actually already the case for Gtk3-based applications, we would
> like to enable it for Gtk2-based applications too.  I feel very safe
> about this since the accessibility stack has been maturing in Gtk2 for a
> decade now.
> 
> The way I see it is simply by making the libatk-adaptor package add gail
> and atk-bridge to GTK_MODULES from a script in /etc/X11/Xsession.d.
> 
> Is it OK with GTK people?

Sounds good to me. If problems arise, there's time to fix them or revert the
change (hopefully the former).

Cheers,
Emilio
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