Re: [orca-list] orca virtual window suggestion

[Steve Holmes <steve holmesgrown com>]

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On Fri, Feb 01, 2008 at 04:28:04PM -0500, Joanmarie Diggs wrote:
> Hi Steve.
>
> I suppose part of it is my personal feeling that an assistive technology
> should not change the state of items in the environment to which it is
> providing access.  Beyond that, is it desirable to be able to copy and
> paste flat review content independently of copying and pasting text and
> other objects?  That's up for you all to decide; not me. <smile>

Interesting point.  But, that data that gets "scraped" from an
application is always going to be pasted into another application or
window. So whether that content is held in a buffer dedicated to
assistive technology or whether it is the standard holding place (ala
clipboard), I frankly never gave it any thought.  Personally, I
probably wouldn't mind it going into the main clipboard.  I guess the
only time that would be a problem would be if you were using Orca to
do some extensive cutting and pasting and also were doing a bit of
cut/paste within regular applications, maybe one would want to
preserve the separate areas.  This smills like a clipboard manager
might be in order <laugh>.  I don't know if such an animal exists for
gnome or not.  I'm thinking of things like Clip Mate for Windows.  Now
Lorenzo mentioned the clipboard inside of Speakup.  It was a really
neat tool as AFAIK I'm not aware of any cut/paste facility within the
normal text consoles so there, it is indispencable.

> What's far more important is the bit about removing the keybindings from
> the patch from your user-settings.py.

Well, if we screw things up, we can just wipe the svn folder clean and
do a new checkout and re-apply the patch.  I tend to backup my .orca
folder for good measure as I have experimented with different voice
settings, lost speech and the only way back for me was to restore the
.orca folder and all is fixed again.
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