On 7/26/06, Fernando Herrera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Humm I'm seeing a problem here. What about GNOME/GTK+ applications > launched outside a gnome-session? (for example people using KDE). > > They won't get the gtk-modules XSETTING and then they won't be accesible at > all. > > I guess that the solution that Kristian pointed (gtk loading auto > loading "runtime modules" provided by the platform) may solve this > problem: > > - gtk_init --> load_init_modules: > - gnome a11y module --> Check a11y gconf key --> load gail and friends > - bug-buddy module --> install segv handler. > > the downside of this method is that if we have installed gnome a11y > modules then we are adding a little bit of overhead to only-gtk > applications (loading gnome-module because it is installed, loading > gconf, checking a11y). >
GTK+ programs running outside a session can either fall back to the GTK_MODULES envvar or use an xsettings manager even if they are running under, say, KDE. That was the initial idea of xsettings anyway, and I believe there is a xsettings manager for KDE that some distributions use. Matthias _______________________________________________ Gnome-accessibility-devel mailing list Gnome-accessibility-devel@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-devel
