On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 11:13 PM, Matthias Clasen <matthias.cla...@gmail.com
> wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 10:03 AM, Piñeiro <apinhe...@igalia.com> wrote:
>
> >
> > Although move the gail implementation to gtk has his advantages, why
> > this would be better that just fix them directly on gail? One of the
> > big problems here is the lack of resources, so doing the move would
> > add a extra work that could be used to just fix the problems.
>
> The move ends one of the biggest source of problems with the a11y
> implementations as they are now: they are separate objects living
> outside of gtk and have to duplicate lots of widget state by listening
> for signals and poking at the widgets from the outside. That is both
> terribly inefficient, and prone to reentry problems. Just look at how
> often gailtreeview iterates over the entire model, e.g....
>
> I agree with moving gail code into gtk. I remember there are several
serious and old gail bugs that we found can not be fixed without accessing
the private area of gtk.  And I am sure the moving will give gail many
opportunities to improve its performance. I would like to be involved in the
project.

Li
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