the new accessibility fixes in exo and thunar

kendell clark coffeekingms at gmail.com
Mon Nov 5 23:22:49 CET 2012


hi
I've just finished partially building xfce4 from git. A few packages 
refused to build, some erroring out. Details below.
xfce4-panel refused to build, but that sounds like an error in the 
pkgbuild file that I couldn't figure out.  Xfdesktop wouldn't build, 
because it was missing a dependency, libxfce4menu, which was available 
in the aur, but which couldn't download from git. I"m guessing 
libxfce4menu and libxfcegui4 are deps that not much needs anymore. The 
rest of the desktop built just fine. I had to hack a couple of the pkg 
builds to make them build, but they built, and I was able to test 
thunar's new accessibility support. The icons read with orca, but only 
after tabbing away from,, and back to, them. YOu down arrow, tab, shift 
tab, and orca will read the icon. I don't know if this is an issue with 
the code or, more likely, my incomplete desktop. I didn't manage to get 
the entire thing from git, so some packages were from git and some were 
still 4.10 release. I wasn't able to test the desktop icons because 
xfdesktop refused to build, but thunar was accessible.
  I now have xfce 4.10 back, but I still have the git packages so I can 
rebuild if necessary.
Thanks
kendell clark



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