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 patch makes that work using 1 of 2 options:
1. Add all missing enums to the switch statement
or
2. Cast the switch argument to a uint to avoid having to do that (mostly
for GdkEventType).
I even found a bug while doing that: clearing a GtkImage with a surface
did not notify thae surface property.
The reason for enabling this flag even though it is tedious at times is
that it is very useful when adding values to an enum, because it makes
GTK immediately warn about all the switch statements where this enum is
relevant.
And I expect changes to enums to be frequent during the GTK4 development
cycle.
This reverts commit 70ac2b24c3.
It turns out the correct fix is to make pango_layout_get_text() not
return NULL. This has been done, so we can drop this patch.
I won't bump the Pango dependency in configure.ac for this as I don't
consider the crash critical enough.
I'm adding a bunch of fixes for gcc complaining about
-Wmissing-declarations.
This set of patches makes private classes in gtk/*.c that use
G_DEFINE_TYPE() safe by adding definitions for the get_type() function
that can't be made static.
There was some regressions from the recent display line fix;
while fixing it improve the test coverage and make GtkEntry
and GtkTextView return identical results.
These functions are implementations of the AtkText api on top
of a PangoLayout, and are intended to replace GailTextUtil.
Since gtkpango.h is a private header, also remove the individual
inclusion prohibition.
This includes the addition of a "small" helper function,
_gtk_pango_fill_layout() that ignores color information. This
functionality is not available inside Pango and until that happens, we
need this fix. The bug is filed at:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=624917
