a11y support removed for ETable objects

[Patrick Wright]

Binary package hint: evolution

Accessibility support was removed for ETable objects upstream.

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=330728#c154

This disabled the ability for ldtp to hook with the Messages table. (i.e., list of messages in the Inbox)

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Hello Patrick,

this feature was removed upstream because it causes a lot of crashes and is unmaintained. I don't think we can spend the effort in the desktop team to maintain it ourselves.

Would it help if we re-enabled the feature during the natty development cycle and disable it for the final release?

[Patrick Wright (patrickmwright)]

Hi Martin,
I will discuss with Jean-Baptiste and inform you of our decision. I also
don't want you spending any unnecessary time on it :)

On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 12:52 AM, Martin Pitt <email address hidden>wrote:

> Hello Patrick,
>
> this feature was removed upstream because it causes a lot of crashes and
> is unmaintained. I don't think we can spend the effort in the desktop
> team to maintain it ourselves.
>
> Would it help if we re-enabled the feature during the natty development
> cycle and disable it for the final release?
>
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/723898
>
> Title:
> a11y support removed for ETable objects
>
> Status in The Evolution Mail & Calendaring Tool:
> Fix Released
> Status in “evolution” package in Ubuntu:
> New
> Status in “evolution” source package in Natty:
> New
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: evolution
>
> Accessibility support was removed for ETable objects upstream.
>
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=330728#c154
>
> This disabled the ability for ldtp to hook with the Messages table.
> (i.e., list of messages in the Inbox)
>
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[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

I agree with Martin, and really appreciate his proposition. But there is risk to break something just before the final release by re-enabling it and disabling it just before. It is not worth it.
So let it open and retarget for O

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Closing natty task then, keeping floating task.

[Jörg Frings-Fürst (jff-de)]

change status to Fix released (see gnome-bugs)