Hello, Can I join in with a slightly different point of view?
This step by the SuSE development team is fantastic. I'm really happy
to see that time has been put in to porting Yast over to GTK but
you've missed one of the main benefits to a lot of users of Gnome.
Accessibility. Gnome is the only window manager in SuSE that is
accessible to the blind and visually impaired. Yast because of it's
almost full dependents on QT leaves a possibly large user base out in
the cold as they are fourced to continue to depend on the text
version.
When I first heard of this GTK version of Yast I was delighted! Today
however, I hear that for some unknown reason, the developers have used
old GTK Wigits that do not contain any accessibility properties
therefore in SuSE 10.2, I along with countless other visually impaired
users will be left in the cold again.
It is very unfortunate that the developers have gone down this road.
When are we going to see equal access in SUSE? I have to say well
done for employing someone who works on accessibility issues full time
but why don't you put him to some use. Consult him when your writing
new applications. Make your software more accessibility aware. It's
not difficult!
Thanks. That's my rant over. I mean it though. I am really angry
that SuSE is still not making their very comprehensive and powerful
package manager accessible.
There are dozens if not hundreds of possible contributors and testers
out there, make use of them before you release a product. Not
after...
Darragh
On 10/09/2007, Stanislav Visnovsky
Hi,
On 9/10/07, Rodrigo Moya
wrote: reading this it looks like us (the GNOME people working on SuSE) are evil :-) But the reason was not to not use QT, that's a very poor reason. The real reason is UI integration, that is, even though the QT version of yast works very well (I've been using it for years), it looked so different to the rest of GTK apps that they were not consistent at all. And given that Yast provides a way to write different frontends, that seemed to be the best option.
Why not to adjust it according to the desktop used? For Gnome users the default would be Gnome UI and for KDE users Qt? (And also let the user chose preferable UI from some configuration
Dňa Monday 10 September 2007 13:28:27 Mark Goldstein ste napísal: menu...)
That's exactly what is done in 10.3. The discussion is about a different topic - how the different UIs match.
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