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Bug 648131 - Should we (fully) implement or eliminate the desktop abstraction?
Should we (fully) implement or eliminate the desktop abstraction?
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: at-spi
Classification: Platform
Component: at-spi2-core
unspecified
Other All
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: At-spi maintainer(s)
At-spi maintainer(s)
Depends on:
Blocks: 638537
 
 
Reported: 2011-04-18 16:45 UTC by Joanmarie Diggs (IRC: joanie)
Modified: 2021-07-05 10:45 UTC
See Also:
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Description Joanmarie Diggs (IRC: joanie) 2011-04-18 16:45:09 UTC 
Currently we have a desktop abstraction, but only one desktop is supported. We should either implement this abstraction fully or eliminate it -- or at least document it properly. :-)
Comment 1 Joanmarie Diggs (IRC: joanie) 2011-05-12 17:19:05 UTC 
ATK Hackfest conclusions:

* No one here really knows what the definition of 'desktop' is in this particular context.

* Before we can make an appropriate decision about what to do here we need to first understand what a 'desktop' is, why this implementation was done in the first place, and why currently only one desktop is supported.

* There are no problems (other than vast confusion) as a result of this implementation.

* Ergo, we will come back to this after higher priority issues have been fully dealt with.
Comment 2 Li Yuan 2011-05-12 17:22:26 UTC 
Here is the definition of ATKDesktop in at-spi:

typedef struct {
        AtkObject parent;

        GdkScreen *screen;
} SpiAtkDesktop;

So seems ATKDesktop is created for GdkScreen.

And from documentation of GdkScreen [1]:

This is a currently just a placeholder typedef for the first argument of the window_at_pointer function in GdkPointerHooks. It will be used when GDK gets multihead support. 


[1] http://developer.gnome.org/gdk/unstable/GdkScreen.html#GdkScreen-struct
Comment 3 Mike Gorse 2011-09-02 20:22:57 UTC 
See also http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=108331 (the original bug to implement this)
Comment 4 André Klapper 2012-02-26 10:42:40 UTC 
[Resetting QA Contact to newly introduced "at-spi-maint@gnome.bugs". 
Reason: So far it was impossible to watch changes in at-spi bug reports without following all the specific persons (Li Yuan, Bill Haneman, Jeff Wai, ...) and also their activity outside of at-spi reports.

IMPORTANT: Anyone interested in following all bug activity (including all maintainers) must watch the "at-spi-maint@gnome.bugs" dummy user by adding it to the 'Users to watch' list under Preferences->Email preferences. This is also the default procedure nowadays in GNOME when setting up new products.]
Comment 5 André Klapper 2013-08-14 10:05:37 UTC 
[Mass-resetting default assignee, see bug 705890. Please reclaim this bug report by setting the assignee to yourself if you still plan to work on this. Thanks!]
Comment 6 GNOME Infrastructure Team 2021-07-05 10:45:37 UTC 
GNOME is going to shut down bugzilla.gnome.org in favor of gitlab.gnome.org.
As part of that, we are mass-closing older open tickets in bugzilla.gnome.org
which have not seen updates for a longer time (resources are unfortunately
quite limited so not every ticket can get handled).

If you can still reproduce the situation described in this ticket in a recent
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Thank you for your understanding and your help.