gtk2 and gnome

[Phillip Whiteside]

Hi Luke,

I'm now running lubuntu which is lxde based but also GTK2 compliant, I'm
only a tester of things but would be happy to assist in anyway I can for
testing this newer flavour with accessibility options.

Regards,

Phill.

On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 12:50 AM, Luke Yelavich <themuso at ubuntu.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Jun 06, 2010 at 02:07:10PM EST, Phillip Whiteside wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I read of things being done that are for gnome, I'm guessing that they
> are
> > gnome only? Does that mean that those running xfce, lxde, etc. as desktop
> > environments can not use them without pulling in all of the gnome
> libraries?
> > I understand that the newer gtk standard is compatible across the
> different
> > flavours of desktop environments, without getting too technical, could
> some
> > one tell me what the differences are.
>
> What things are you referring to exactly?
>
> As to XFCE for example, since it uses GTK, and since the accessibility bits
> are being abstracted away from GNOME as much as possible, XFCE should be
> able to use the accessibility infrastructure. Parts of XFCE, at least when I
> last tried, were accessible to Orca, but certainly not everything. It also
> doesn't help that XFCE doesn't really have the right bits in place to start
> accessbility infrastructure pieces properly. I have been meaning to help
> them with that, but haven't got around to it.
>
> Also when I last tried, there were not any useful keyboard shortcuts ofor a
> fair number of tasks. I should really grab the Xubuntu lucid disk and
> install it into a VM and have another play.
>
> Luke
>
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