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 was preventing any sort of building on macOS, even though the quartz
backend is currently non-functional. Fixing this is a pre-requisite to
getting a new macOS backend compiling.
Instead of an array of arrays, let's use an array of dictionaries; it's
easier to add optional keys without requiring to remember where to put
empty arrays.
One of the widget-factory focus tests is flaky in ci,
perhaps due to font changes causing size computations
to go slightly differently.
Drop this for now.
This is a list model holding strings, initialized
from a char **. String lists are buildable as well,
and that replaces the buildable support in GktDropDowns.
The tooltip handling in GtkWidget is "special":
- the string is stored inside the qdata instead of the private
instance data
- the accessors call g_object_set() and g_object_get(), and the
logic is all inside the property implementation, instead of
being the other way around
- the getters return a copy of the string
- the setters don't really notify all the involved properties
The GtkWidgetAccessible uses the (escaped) tooltip text as a source for
the accessible object description, which means it has to store the
tooltip inside the object qdata, and update its copy at construction and
property notification time.
We can simplify this whole circus by making the tooltip properties (text
and markup) more idiomatic:
- notify all side-effect properties
- return a constant string from the getter
- if tooltip-text is set:
- store the text as is
- escape the markup and store it separately for the markup getter
- if tooltip-markup is set:
- store the markup as is
- parse the markup and store it separately for the text getter
The part of the testtooltips interactive test that checks that the
getters are doing the right thing is now part of the gtk testsuite, so
we ensure we don't regress in behaviour.
The color editor shows a color picker button only if it
finds a suitable implementation, which it does not in ci.
So disable the focus-chain test for page 3.
This test was expecting to make existing widgets like
GtkBox focusable by setting :can-focus. That just doesn't
work anymore.
The focus chain testing that is done here is already
better covered by test-focus-chain, so lets just remove this.
For some reason, these tests are flaky in ci,
they always work locally for me. So, until
we use the data these tests produce for something,
lets just turn them off.
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.
Reduce the amount of special casing by using a list model
for global and managed shortcuts, too.
This way, the ListModel API will work for the ShortcutController in the
GtkShortcutManager and GtkRoot.
The only special case remaining is shortcut activation, which needs to
pass the right widget to the controller in the global/managed case.
Stylecontexts are on their way out and I'm removing API that the
testsuite was relying on, so remove the tests.
Put the useful parts of the tests elsewhere.
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.
