GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 98488
We need an accessx status applet
Last modified: 2004-12-22 21:47:04 UTC
There is a requirement for an accessx status window, most logically an applet, that shows the current status of various accessx settings. (CDE had this feature.)
I imagine it would be best to have this as a tray applet that gets added to the tray when accessx is enabled?
Reassigning to control-center then (oops)
Well, not for Sun it wouldn't because we don't ship the tray :) I'm not sure it wouldn't be too big to go there anyway, but I guess we won't know that until we've decided what's going in it.
hey - I am working on this now. Could the control-center maintainers please work with me to make sure we don't miss the 2.4 feature freeze deadline if we can help it? Also note Calum's UI proposals that have been posted to d-d-l on this topic. I'm just writing the guts, not designing the UI :-) I am starting the actual codebase as of this moment - I think we can make freeze if we keep in touch. thanks!
Created attachment 16697 [details] gzippef tarfile with buildable module for new applet
Created attachment 16782 [details] dist tarball for new version of applet with graphics
Created attachment 16841 [details] much-improved tarball; feature-complete
Created attachment 16855 [details] revised tarball - menu icon works, re-orients when panel changes, can launch accessibility capplet from menu
converting this to a patch - I've added working docs. However there is an odd race conditionin the applet initialization that needs investigation.
My version of gcc (2.96) objects to defining variables mid-function... dunno if that's a problem or if I just need to upgrade :) applet.c:463: parse error before `*' applet.c:842: parse error before `*' Compiles fine if I move these two definitions up to the top of their respective functions.
committed to gnome-applets.