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
This makes meson actually parse the individual test
results. Most of the time, it does not make a difference,
but one case where it does is when all the individual
tests of a binary are skipped, meson will mark the
test as skipped.
This adds a GDK_DEBUG=default-settings flag which disables reads
from xsettings and Xft resources, and enables this for the testsuite.
This is one less way to get different testresults depending on the
environment. In particular, it was failing the css tests for me
due to getting the wrong font size because i have a different dpi.
Instead of having a single massive test running through the a11y
directory, we can split off each individual file into its own unit.
Having individual units has several advantages:
- units are executed in parallel
- it's easier to identify the failing units
- logs for failed units are easier to read
With autotools the schemas were compiled into each test suite directory
and the tests set GSETTINGS_SCHEMA_DIR to the test build directory.
With meson's gnome.compile_schemas() we can not define a target directory
so just make sure it is built in the gtk directory and set GSETTINGS_SCHEMA_DIR
to the gtk build directory when running the tests.
This makes the gtk+:gtk suite pass when no gtk is installed on the system.
Copy the location of the test data and binaries from the autotools
build, even though it's not really correct; currently we install the
test data under libexecdir, but it should live under datadir, and we
should use `G_TEST_DIST` to figure it out.
The `state` subdirectory is missing.
