Renamed as it started to be really offtopic. From: trev.saund...@gmail.com
>> You also have the problem of how signal gtk applications on >> runtime. You would require a IPC to do that, so the best candidate >> would be DBUS. This would mean add a new dependency to gtk+. > > I'm tempted to try to do this with signals, its kind of ugly, but I believe > could work. My idea is basically have a file that contains a list of new > modules you'd like gtk to load, the app could find out the name of this file > from an enviroment variable or it could be determined at build time, > whatever. We'd put this file in $HOME/.new_gtk_moduels or something again > the details don't really matter, but it should probably be in $HOME > somewhere. Then when you want a gtk application to load the modules > specified there you can just send it a signal. Now that I think about this > you could probably do the same thing with a fifo, without the signals part. > While its far less enterprisey it seems reasonable, and fairly easy to > implement. But here you are explaining a alternative way to put the modules to load on runtime, but not how to send the signal itself. AFAIU, the idea is: a) Press a shortcut b) Window manager launches orca+at-spi-registryd c) Gtk apps receives a signal in order to load this modules. As far as I understand, the idea is that window manager sent this signal to any gtk applications in order to load the modules. But the window manager is a app and the gtk apps are different ones, so, unless Im missing something, you need a IPC signal library, like DBUS. BTW: probably you won't require this file. As explained here [1], when you set the gconf properties related to accessibility, automatically at-spi-registryd is executed, and GTK_MODULES is updated to contain the gtk a11y related modules. So you'll have a) and b) and just missing c). > While dbus could work it seems to me atleast like a really big hammer for > this problem. Using DBUS was just a quick thought/straightforward of how implement it if a external app want to ask gtk apps to load during runtime. Probably there are other solutions to do that. [1] http://live.gnome.org/Accessibility/Mechanics?highlight=%28no\_at\_bridge%29#gnome-settings-daemon === API (apinhe...@igalia.com) _______________________________________________ gnome-accessibility-list mailing list gnome-accessibility-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list
