Re: [Ayatana-dev] Nux Newsletter: A new event system architecture

[Piñeiro <apinheiro@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 06/21/2011 06:41 PM, Jay Taoko wrote:
> *How does this affect Unity?*
> The changes required in Unity where not substantial. However, there 
> are some pending issues:
>
>    * There is a regression in the Dash keyboard navigation. You cannot
>      use the left, right, down and up keys to navigate from widget to
>      widget in the Dash.

Taking into account that the next big thing to solve on accessibility is 
"a11y support for Dash", I guess that I should wait until this get 
solved to work on it.

Do you know more or less when this regression would be solved ?

Anyway, I'm doing some other things this week, and next week I will be 
on holidays, so I guess that I'm not in a hurry here.

>    * You have to click on the text entry in the Dash search area before
>      you can enter some text.

I guess that this is another regression to solve, right? I mean that 
this is a breakage of keyboard navigation (see above).

>    * DnD (drag and drop) is not working.
>    * There is a regression in the speed of the Dash scrolling.
>
> I have probably missed a few more regressions; please report them. 
> These pending issues will be resolved as quickly as possible. The 
> keyboard event architecture needs more development and feedback from 
> the team is needed to make it efficient and robust.

As far as I come back from holidays I will test the current 
accessibility support, as it was heavily based on the events provided 
from Nux and Unity, so this needs to be checked.
> On the positive side, keyboard navigation in the launcher (Alt+F1) and 
> Quicklist is ok.

This is a good new.

> If you have pending branches that still rely on the previous event 
> architecture, let me know and we will port them to the new system.

Well, yes, I have a pending branch:
https://code.launchpad.net/~apinheiro/unity/a11y-further-places-review

But probably it is not heavily tied to the previous event system.

Anyway it would be better if I do that review by myself.

Thanks for the warning of this change.

BR

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Alejandro Piñeiro Iglesias (API) (apinheiro@xxxxxxxxxx)