a couple of questions about wayland

[kendell clark]

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hi all
I'm wanting to start using gnome on wayland a lot more, so I can flush
out and fix any accessibility related issues. I have a couple of
questions though, and this seemed the right place to ask them. They're
mostly related to accessibility. In any graphical file manager, they
make their icons accessible by adding an image description to the icon
that orca reads. This enables orca to read, for example, test.txt
plain text document. So the image description is the mime type. I've
seen mimetypes such as, application/x-msword, for word documents.
xcontent/audioPlayer for audio players. Are those mime types tied into
xorg or does the "x" just represent an extension to the freedesktop
mime standard? I was hoping that when orca sees my audio player in the
computer it could say "sansa clip audioPlayer" instead of as it does
now, "sansa clip unknown". I'm completely ignorant of how all these
standards operate underneath the hood so if I'm way off the mark, I
apologize. I do know that when using wayland, gnome shell doesn't draw
the desktop, so no desktop icons. This is being worked on though so
it's not a huge deal. My next question is about keyboard shortcuts. If
we're transitioning to a new display server, would it be possible to
have universal keyboard shortcuts? That is, you could set up your
keyboard shortcuts in gnome, and if you switched over to mate, those
keyboard shortcuts would continue to work? I don't think this is
possible in xorg because of how xorg works, but in wayland, you could
set it up so that when mate connects, it is able to see that keyboard
shortcuts have been set, and map the desktop specific parts, such as
closing, moving, minimizing windows, etc to it's own internal methods
for doing so. This is probably not a huge priority since the hard task
will be getting graphics drivers to work properly but just thought I'd ask
Thanks for reading
Kendell clark
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