[Accessibility-ia2] Deprecation of IA2_STATE_SINGLE_LINE

[Pete Brunet]

The following is (slightly edited) from Carolyn, who is implementing IA2
in Eclipse...

Back in the fall, Andres asked why IA2 provides both
IA2_STATE_MULTI_LINE  and  IA2_STATE_SINGLE_LINE state bits.

http://www.mail-archive.com/accessibility-ia2@lists.linuxfoundation.org/msg00173.html

They would seem to be mutually exclusive, and having both takes up a
precious bit in the 32-bit strip.
Is there ever a case where an object can be neither single-line nor
multi-line?
Is there ever a case where an object can be both single-line and multi-line?

In the conversation on the ia2 list, Jamie said that he had never even
noticed the single-line bit.

This is a possible source of error, for example if an application only
notices and sets/clears the "single" bit, but the AT only looks at the
"multi" bit.

The list discussion kind of ended with "oh well, whatever".

I propose deprecating IA2_STATE_SINGLE_LINE.  Any objections?

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