Serious accessibility issue in Gnome 2.15.

[Calum Benson]

On 7 Aug 2006, at 17:06, Willie Walker wrote:


> My experiences show that GAIM will come up without the buddy list and
> you need to press the gaim icon in the panel to show it.  I've tried
> various ways to get to the icon from the keyboard, but I cannot  
> seem to
> do so (BAD for people who cannot use the mouse).

A long-standing bug:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=103223

Do you have GAIM set up to start up in Away mode, by any chance?   
That will cause GAIM to start with the buddy list hidden IIRC.

Cheeri,
Calum.

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