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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