gtk2 and gnome

[Luke Yelavich]

On Sun, Jun 06, 2010 at 02:07:10PM EST, Phillip Whiteside wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I read of things being done that are for gnome, I'm guessing that they are
> gnome only? Does that mean that those running xfce, lxde, etc. as desktop
> environments can not use them without pulling in all of the gnome libraries?
> I understand that the newer gtk standard is compatible across the different
> flavours of desktop environments, without getting too technical, could some
> one tell me what the differences are.

What things are you referring to exactly?

As to XFCE for example, since it uses GTK, and since the accessibility bits are being abstracted away from GNOME as much as possible, XFCE should be able to use the accessibility infrastructure. Parts of XFCE, at least when I last tried, were accessible to Orca, but certainly not everything. It also doesn't help that XFCE doesn't really have the right bits in place to start accessbility infrastructure pieces properly. I have been meaning to help them with that, but haven't got around to it.

Also when I last tried, there were not any useful keyboard shortcuts ofor a fair number of tasks. I should really grab the Xubuntu lucid disk and install it into a VM and have another play.

Luke