When we create the first AT-SPI context we also need to register the
accessible root on the accessibility bus. The accessible root object is
the main entry point of an accessible application, and it holds the
global state to present to the ATs that connect to the bus.
Since we need to check at run time what kind of AT context to use, we
need a hook into the whole GDK backend machinery. The display connection
seems to be the best choice, in this case, as it allows us to determine
whether we're running on an X11 or Wayland system, and thus whether we
should create a GtkAtSpiContext.
This requires some surgery to fix the GtkATContext creation function, in
order to include a GdkDisplay instance.
Does not do anything, at the moment, but it's going to get filled out
soon.
The backend is selected depending on the platform being compiled in;
since we're using AT-SPI on X11 and Wayland, and we don't have other
accessibility implementations, we currently don't care about run time
selection, but we're going to have to deal with that.
And generate the code for the DBus interfaces.
We don't want the full object manager experience, here, because we're
going to have a single object responding to various interfaces and
remote method calls. For this reason, we're not using the gnome module
in Meson to call gdbus-codegen for us: we need to use the interface info
command line arguments, and those are not available from Meson.
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
It's finally unused.
Accessible types should either watch properties they are interested in
directly, or should have (private) API to allow widgets to update the
accessible state directly.
Now that we don't have any additional subclasses of GtkEntryAccessible
in GTK, we can drop all the conditional fluff in the base class.
We still need to subscribe to the global notify signal, because of the
sheer amount of properties watched by GtkEntryAccessible.
GtkPasswordEntryAccessible is not a GtkEntryAccessible any more, so it
will need a proper implementation of various interfaces and
functionality in order to work like any other entry.
We're already listening to the adjustment property on the spin button,
there's no need to reset the adjustment on widget set/unset, since the
accessible instance is always tied to the same widget.
Drop the GtkWidgetAccessibleClass.notify_gtk and the
AtkObjectClass.initialize overrides: they don't do anything relevant.
Instead, have GtkProgressBar update the accessible state when the
fraction changes.
Do not use a generic "notify" signal handler.
Additionally, clean up the GtkIconViewAccessible implementation to bring
it up with modern idiomatic GObject.
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.
This commit is porting GtkPaned to be derived
from GtkWidget instead of GtkContainer, while adding
start-child and end-child properties. The existing
properties are renamed to follow the start/end naming
scheme, and we add proper getters and setters.
Update all users.
See #2719
We want to remove GtkBin and GtkContainer as they don't
provide much useful functionality anymore. This requires
us to move get_request_mode and compute_expand down.
See #2719
The a11y machinery is using signal subscription to get notified of size
changes and notify listeners in turn. This is suboptimal for a couple of
reasons:
- if something connects to the GtkWidget::size-allocate signal we need
to emit it; currently, we have an optimization in place that will
skip the signal emission if there are no handlers, and it would be
nice to go through the fast path
- the accessibility implementation is part of GTK, and should not go
through additional hoops like any out-of-tree API consumer
We want to remove GtkBin and GtkContainer as they don't
provide much useful functionality anymore. This requires
us to move get_request_mode and compute_expand down.
Update the accessible implementation to match, remove
remnants of container implementations in GtkWindow
subclasses, and fix livecycle issues around destroy
vs dispose in GtkAssistant.
After this commit, using gtk_container_add on window
subclasses is not allowed anymore, but adding childing
with <child> in ui files still works.
See #2681
We want to remove GtkBin and GtkContainer as they don't
provide much useful functionality anymore. This requires
us to move get_request_mode and compute_expand down.
We have to implement GtkBuildable, in order to keep
the <child> element in ui files working for aspect
frames.
See #2681
We want to remove GtkBin and GtkContainer as they don't
provide much useful functionality anymore. This requires
us to move get_request_mode and compute_expand down.
See #2681
Make GtkScaleButton a widget that has a toggle button
as a child, just like all the other button widgets now.
The immediate benefit of this arrangement is to avoid
the "double focus" problem when we pop up the popup.
Update accessible, demos and tests to match.
The :can-focus property is no longer very useful to
give an indication of what is focusable, since it is
TRUE for almost all widgets now. Patch things up
to by looking at known widget types.
Entries and menubuttons are no longer focusable themselves,
they have focusable children. Since we don't have accessible
objects for those, transfer the focus-related state (focusable
and focused) from the children to the main accessible object.
It is enough to just set the parent (and make the parent
call gtk_native_check_resize in size_allocate).
This commit removes the relative_to argument to the
constructors of GtkPopover and GtkPopoverMenu, and
updates all callers.
Restructure the getters for event fields to
be more targeted at particular event types.
Update all callers, and replace all direct
event struct access with getters.
As a side-effect, this drops some unused getters.
We've started to turns containers into widgets which
just happen to have children, and some of these need
to be exposed to the a11y stack.
This adds a very minimal implementation, it does not
currently emit change notification when children are
added or removed.
