Bug#890991: mate-panel: Please enable SNI support for accessibility purpose

[Mike Gabriel <sunweaver@debian.org>]

Control: tags -1 wontfix

Hi,

On  Mo 05 Mär 2018 17:01:07 CET, Alex ARNAUD wrote:

> Control: tags -1 patch
>
> Le 21/02/2018 à 15:59, Alex ARNAUD a écrit :
> > Le 21/02/2018 à 12:53, Jean-Philippe MENGUAL a écrit :
> > > This bug has a fix provided that the default value of SNI support is set
> > > to True.
> >
> > Thanks for the report; It should be also great to add sni-qt to the  
> > recommended packages for Mate panel. It's easy for power user to  
> > remove package but difficult for beginner to find what to install  
> > to make software working.
>
> I've added a proposed patch to do the following things:
> - Enable SNI support by default on Mate panel
> - Add sni-qt to recommended package of mate-desktop-environment : to  
> make the SNI support effective, sni-qt has to be installed on the  
> targeted system.
>
> With this patch, the notification area of Mate becomes fully usable  
> by keyboard users.
>
> Best regards,
> Alex.

We won't have this in Debian for now as a default setting. Please  
deploy local .gschema.override files to get this working for you. It  
can be easily done system-wide, if there are any questions, please get  
in touch with me on IRC.

The plan for MATE in Debian buster really really is to get Ayatana  
Indicators fully working:

  - mate-indicator-applet is a default applet in the panel
  - notification-area, media-applet, clock-applet of the stock mate  
panel are not used anymore
  - xembed support gets added to an extra indicator, so that
    applications with xembed-only tray icons can be proxied through  
an indicator

This will bring you the same result but is much more future proof.  
Applicaitons with xembed-only tray icon implementation are not  
up-to-date anymore and should be reworked finally. (Simply dropping  
xembed support in Debian MATE will not happen, though, the Unity and  
GNOME people have done that and did not get much applause for it back  
then...).

Mike
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