[Bug 936310] Re: Some applications don't 'auto-show' onboard

[marmuta]

Some general notes: onboard's auto-show is based on at-spi focus events.
All frameworks and applications supporting at-spi should in theory work
with onboard out of the box. AFAIK supported frameworks are gtk, qt and
java. Everything outside of those would have to have been coded with at-
spi in mind or be ignored by onboard.

There is still a possibility that onboard misses some accessible
widgets, e.g. if they are marked with roles and states we haven't
encountered before. This can be fixed from Onboard's side. However, I
believe by now most of the remaining problems will have to be taken care
of by the developers of the affected applications.

There are probably hundreds of applications in the repositories where
auto-show doesn't work. We, the Onboard devs, cannot possibly go through
all of them. I'd suggest we concentrate on a few high profile ones and
file bug reports there.

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