Re: [orca-list] Question about Magnifier Zoomer settings

["Mike Wigle" <Mike Wigle cincyblind org>]

I was curious, will it ever be possible to get full screen magnification out of gnome-mag?

Michael Wigle

-----Original Message-----
From: Willie Walker [mailto:William Walker Sun COM] 
Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2007 11:29 AM
To: Carlos Eduardo Rodrigues Diógenes
Cc: orca-list gnome org
Subject: Re: [orca-list] Question about Magnifier Zoomer settings

Just to follow up, I've added the "{top,bottom,right,left} half of the 
screen" notes to http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=452316#c14.

Will

Carlos Eduardo Rodrigues Diógenes wrote:
> Hi Bryen,
> 
> 2007/11/29, Bryen <suseROCKS bryen com>:
>> I pose this only as a question and not a criticism, as I wish to learn
>> the reasoning behind the development of key pieces of Orca.
>>
>> When I first used Orca with the magnifier, it took up the full right
>> half of my screen.  Personally, I prefer the magnifier to be across the
>> top of my screen.  After some poking around, I found the zoomer settings
>> under the magnifier tab.  It took some trial and error as I tried to
>> figure out what the numeric values meant for top bottom left right.  My
>> settings are now
>>
>> top 1
>> bottom 201
>> left 100
>> right 1014
>>
>> Has there been any discussion about making this easier for the end-user?
>> I was thinking that there are two ways to make it easier:
>>
>> One would be to be able to grab and re-size the magnifier window just
>> like you would any other window on your desktop.
> 
> I believe that this a great enhancement to be done in gnome-mag (yeah,
> this is the underlying magnifier program), but I guess that gnome-mag
> will not see any new features in a near future, since in the last
> months I was the only active programmer in it, and I dropped this work
> for an undefined amount of time, since I have other priorities.
> 
>> The other way would be to change the zoomer setting options to a more
>> user-friendly set of options.  Like zoomer position = top half, bottom
>> half, left half or right half.
> 
> I also think that this can be great and this is really easy to do, and
> be sure, you ask for it in the right mailing list! Probably in the
> next release of orca you will see something like this.
> 
> Best regards,
> Carlos.
> 
>> Also, out of curiosity, what is the underlying magnifier program?  Is it
>> gnome-mag?
>> --
>> ---Bryen---
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