[orca-list] A few additional details on 2.31.91

[Joanmarie Diggs <joanmarie diggs gmail com>]

Hey guys.

By now, you have probably seen the Orca 2.31.91 release announcement.
There are a few things we wanted to be sure you were aware of regarding
this latest, "unstable" release:

1. JosÃ's new notification feature got committed. One issue was
discovered in the process of testing, namely, if you get into the
notification review, forget you're in there, and then give focus to
something else, Orca will likely not present the new locusOfFocus *until
you press Escape*. Once you do that, it's all good again.

We have a newly-opened bug for that issue here:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=628367. It will get fixed
soon -- i.e. for 2.31.92 and likely sooner since I see Josà just
attached a patch. We briefly considered not committing JosÃ's
notification feature until that bug was also fixed, but that would mean
we would not be allowed to include JosÃ's feature until 3.0 due to the
string change. And, well, the new feature is quite handy and cool and
otherwise works very nicely, so it went in. Way to go JosÃ! Thanks for
your work!!

2. The changes I asked you all to test about starting and restarting and
getting the version, etc. of Orca were committed today as well. Thanks
to Juanje for his help on that!

Finally:

3. As of tonight, if you use master/unstable, the official location of
your Orca settings is now xdg based. For me, in Maverick, that happens
to be $HOME/.local/share/orca. When you start Orca from master now, it
should check for the presence of Orca settings in the new location. If
it fails to find them, but manages to locate your settings in the old
location ($HOME/.orca) it will copy them for you. And note "copy them,"
not "move them." (Thanks Ale!) This means that you can continue to use
Orca stable and Orca unstable/master and each version will look in the
expected place for the settings. And everything should co-exist quite
nicely. This includes any orca_customizations.py file you have.

The only "inconvenience" you might run across is that you potentially
will have two separate sets of settings: One for stable Orca; one for
unstable Orca/master. That means if you save a setting in one version of
Orca, it will only get written out for that version's location; not
both. But other than an occasional, temporary, "I could have sworn I
saved that... Oh yeah..." moment, you should be fine.

As always, we appreciate all your feedback and testing -- especially
during this, the final stretch of 2.32.2.

Take care.
--joanie