[Sugar-devel] accessibility and favorites view

[Walter Bender]

On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 4:56 AM, Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu at sugarlabs.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm looking at what would take to make Sugar as accessible as GNOME is
> and the biggest roadblock by far that I have found are the views based
> on HippoCanvas.
>
> Have been playing with using custom GtkContainer subclasses and things
> seem to work but once I looked into removing hippo from the favorites
> view I realized the insane amount of dead code we have in there.
>
> So what I'm proposing to do is to remove the code for dragging icons
> around (which AFAIK has never been deployed in the field) and also not
> try to port all the layouts, only the Spiral one.
>
> Still, I think it's worthy to leave the layout pluggability so people
> can keep experimenting easily with different layouts, I'm just not
> going to port each of them because there's an enormous amount of work
> to do in accessibility in general.
>
> Any opinons?
>
> All this is food for 0.92, of course.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Tomeu
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I think the dragging of icons may be used in the field more than we
think. Re the other "dead" code, I am in favor or removing. We can
leave some examples in the wiki of how to modify sugar. If it comes
down to a choice between dragging icons and supporting accessibility
by abandoning Hippo, I am very solidly in the accessibility camp.

-walter

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Walter Bender
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