To build a better world sometimes means having to tear the old one down.
-- Alexander Pierce, "Captain America: The Winter Soldier"
ATK served us well for nearly 20 years, but the world has changed, and
GTK has changed with it. Now ATK is mostly a hindrance towards improving
the accessibility stack:
- it maps to a very specific implementation, AT-SPI, which is Linux and
Unix specific
- it requires implementing the same functionality in three different
layers of the stack: AT-SPI, ATK, and GTK
- only GTK uses it; every other Linux and Unix toolkit and application
talks to AT-SPI directly, including assistive technologies
Sadly, we cannot incrementally port GTK to a new accessibility stack;
since ATK insulates us entirely from the underlying implementation, we
cannot replace it piecemeal. Instead, we're going to remove everything
and then incrementally build on a clean slate:
- add an "accessible" interface, implemented by GTK objects directly,
which describe the accessible role and state changes for every UI
element
- add an "assistive technology context" to proxy a native accessibility
API, and assign it to every widget
- implement the AT context depending on the platform
For more information, see: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/issues/2833
Remove all the old 2.x and 3.x version annotations.
GTK+ 4 is a new start, and from the perspective of a
GTK+ 4 developer all these APIs have been around since
the beginning.
Instead, add a function gtk_image_set_icon_size() for the cases where
overriding the icon size is necessary.
Treat icon sizes the same way as pixel sizes, too. So gtk_image_clear()
no longer unsets the icon size.
The previous way of manually juggling the visibility of the
labels doesn't work anymore, now that gadgets of invisible
widgets don't allocate space anymore.
We rename the gtk_widget_class_bind_template_child{_internal}
macros by appending a _private to their name. Otherwise, it
would be too magic to pass the 'public' names as arguments,
but affect a member of the Private struct. At the same time,
Add two new macros with the old names,
gtk_widget_class_bind_template_child{_internal} that operate
on members of the instance struct.
The macros and functions are inconsistently named, and are not tied to
the "template" concept - to the point that it seems plausible to use
them without setting the template.
The new naming scheme is as follows:
gtk_widget_class_bind_template_child_full
gtk_widget_class_bind_template_callback_full
With the convenience macros:
gtk_widget_class_bind_template_child
gtk_widget_class_bind_template_child_internal
gtk_widget_class_bind_template_callback
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=700898https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=700896
Using an offset from the struct means you can have children in
both the public and private (via G_PRIVATE_OFFSET) parts of the
instance. It also matches the new private macros nicer.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=702563
Signed-off-by: Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi@gnome.org>
This commit exposes the get_type() functions and standard
headers for accessible implementations. This makes it possible
to derive from the GTK accessible implementations without
GType magic tricks. This is necessary, because we require the
a11y type hierarchy to be parallel to the widget type hierarchy.
So, if you derive a widget and need to adjust its a11y implementation,
you have to be able to derive its accessible implementation.
This commit probably exposes more than is absolutely necessary,
it also exposes accessibles of widgets that are unlikely candidates
for deriving from.
This is a special-purpose button that can be used together with
GPermission objects to control the sensitivity of system settings.
Suitable permission objects can e.g. be obtained from PolicyKit.
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=626457
