Re: Announcing Orca v2.17.0

[Janina Sajka <janina rednote net>]

Can you clarify the numbering a little? If I understand the new
numbering strategy, what was released some weeks ago as Orca 1.0 would
be tantamount to a numbering like Orca 2.16.0. Is that correct?

If there are bug fixes, these would then go as 2.16.X, whereas the
development versions would continue as 2.17.X, and culminate in a stable
release of 2.18.0 at sometime in the future?

Is this correct? And do you actually expect bug fixes against the stable
Orca, or just development builds going forward?

Janina

Willie Walker writes:
> ===============
> * What is Orca?
> ===============
> 
> Orca is a free, open source, flexible, and extensible screen reader
> that provides access to the graphical desktop via user-customizable
> combinations of speech, braille, and/or magnification.  Orca has been
> been developed by the Sun Microsystems, Inc., Accessibility Program
> Office via continued engagement with its end users.  In fact, the user
> interface designer for Orca is also a user.
> 
> Now that Orca is part of the GNOME Desktop, we've decided to adopt the
> GNOME versioning scheme to make it easier to correlate Orca releases
> with GNOME releases.  As such the Orca 2.17.x series are designated for
> the GNOME 2.17.x releases. 
> 
> The Orca v2.17.0 release represents a relatively stable tarball
> containing enhancements and bug fixes done since the release of Orca
> v1.0.0 for GNOME 2.16 in September.  Note that we fully expect to do an
> Orca v2.17.1 tarball for the GNOME 2.17.1 release the week of October
> 16th.
> 
> ==================================
> * What's changed for Orca v2.17.0?
> ==================================
> 
> * Updates to user requirements and functional specification.
> 
> * Added Orca man pages.
> 
> * New and improved regression test harness.
> 
> * Added new Orca main window to allow one to have a GUI option for
>   quitting Orca and invoking the configuration settings.  The appearance
>   of this window can be enabled/disabled in the new "General" tab
>   of the configuration dialog.  Also added "Apply" button the 
>   configuration GUI window.
> 
> * Added new Orca "Quit" dialog.
> 
> * Refactor in default.py and other scripts to add isTextArea method to
>   determine if an object is a text area or not.  This allows us to deal
>   with the growing number of things that are text areas, but choose to
>   give themselves different roles (e.g., GTK's 'text', OpenOffice's
>   'paragraph', and Gecko's 'entry').
> 
> * Added Gecko.py toolkit script to cover apps that use the Mozilla
>   Gecko toolkit (e.g., Firefox, Thunderbird, Yelp, etc.).  Some work
>   done with new Firefox 3 at-spi implementation, but much work is
>   still needed.
> 
> * Added repeated character count handling (rfe/bug 354469).
> 
> * Added military spelling (rfe/bug 354460).
> 
> * Fix for bug 351957: Orca now allows the setting of the source and 
>   target displays for magnification.
> 
> * Fix for bug 351569: no longer hang when gnome-keyring password box
>   appears.
> 
> * Fix for bug 344192: no longer hang when the "bug buddy" dialog
>   appears.
> 
> * Fix for bug 355602: $ was being echoed twice in terminal with word
>   echo enabled.
> 
> * Fix for bug 357150: use 'append' instead of 'extend' to avoid
>   spelling out the 'No focus' message.
> 
> * Fix for bug 358508: use obj instead of event.source in
>   visualAppearanceChanged for speech.
> 
> * Fix for bug 353532: provide a workaround for a java-access-bridge 
>   bug (bug 355011) where popup menu events are not sent to Orca.
> 
> * Fix for bug 353531: 'checked'/'unchecked' are no longer reported
>   twice for check boxes in java applications.
> 
> * Fix for bug 357556: Insert key no longer sticks after running test
>   keystroke files. The hot-key to start/stop recording of keystrokes
>   within Orca has been reverted to just "Pause".  Also adjusted the
>   "don't write pause keystrokes" code to recognize F21 (which is the
>   Pause key on my Sun type 6 keyboard).
> 
> * Partial work on bug 354970: add command_name dictionary from Jorge
>   Sandin (thanks Jorge!).  Also refactored the way keybindings and
>   braille bindings are defined and obtained to make it easier to
>   discover and override their definitions.
> 
> * Partial work on bug 349954: become more cognizant of multibyte UTF-8
>   characters.
> 
> * Fix for bug 357509: Flat review now uses the "uppercase" voice
>   settings for uppercase text when navigating by line.
> 
> * Fix for bug 357507: SayAll now uses the "uppercase" voice settings
>   for uppercase text.
> 
> * Fix for bug 356970: repeated character count now works with Evolution
> 
> * Fix for bug 356911: Orca no longer generates a traceback with
>   Numpad-Minus when positioned at the end of a line.
> 
> * Fix for bug 356179: the test in Orca to determine if the desktop
>   is running now works better.
> 
> * Fix for bug 340849: Orca now provides an option to allow the user to
>   automatically logout of the GNOME desktop if the gconf accessibility
>   flag wasn't previously enabled before running the setup utility.
> 
> * Fix for bug 355927: duplicate window titles are now spoken when
>   navigating between them using Alt+Tab.
>         
> * Fix for bug 350216: "LAYERED_PANE" is no longer in speech context.
> 
> * Fix for bug 351797: make sure configuration GUI pops to top.
> 
> * Fix for bug 347128: allow pan buttons to be used on braille display
>   while in learn mode.
> 
> * Fix for bug 347650: allow a script to determine if it is the active
>   script or not (compare self to orca_state.activeScript).
> 
> * For for bug 354983: From Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo novell com> (THANKS!) 
>   to fill in dead code paths in brlmodule.c.
> 
> * Fix for bug 354487: apostrophe no longer delimits a word boundary.
> 
> * Fix for bug 354985: gedit script no longer generates a traceback due 
>   to a missing import line.
> 
> * Fix for bug 342602: StarOffice Writer table cell speaking order fixed.
> 
> * Fix for bug 351826: change orca shell script from sh to bash to allow
>   it to better respond to "kill -HUP" signals.
> 
> * Fix for bug 352866: add "-q" and "--quit" usage information
>         
> * Fix for bug 353600: don't require the user to be root when doing a
>   "make distcheck".
> 
> * New and updated translations (THANKS!):
> 
>     dz      Dzongkha             Pema Geyleg
>     el      Greek                Simos Xenitellis
>     es      Spanish              Francisco Javier F. Serrador
>     et      Estonian             Priit Laes
>     gl      Galician             Ignacio Casal Quinteiro
>     th      Thai                 Supranee Thirawatthanasuk and
>     tr      Turkish              Deniz Kocak and Baris Cicek
> 
> =====================
> * Where can I get it?
> =====================
> 
> You can obtain Orca v2.17.0 in source code form at the following URL:
> 
> http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/orca/2.17/orca-2.17.0.tar.bz2
> http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/orca/2.17/orca-2.17.0.tar.gz
> 
> >From the Sun Microsystems, Inc., Accessibility Program Office,
> 
> Willie Walker, Project Lead
> Mike Pedersen, User Interface Design
> Rich Burridge, Core Development and Scripting
> Lynn Monsanto, Core Development and Java Platform Support
> Michele Budris, Program Management
> 
> 
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