Announcing Orca 0.9.0

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

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* What is it ?
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Orca is a scriptable screen reader for the GNOME desktop for people
with visual impairments.  The Orca V0.9.0 release is targeted for the
GNOME 2.16 Candidate Tarballs release, but also works well with GNOME
2.14.

SPECIAL NOTE: many thanks to our friends at Baum for their work on
improving the support for the Java platform as well as their fixes and
improvements to other areas of the code.  Many thanks also to
Joanmarie Diggs from the Carroll Center for the Blind for her
continued testing, suggestions, and patches.

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* What's changed ?
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Orca 0.9.0
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* Updates to the requirements guide and input and output style guides.

* For regression testing purposes, allow us to get what would have
been spoken even if settings.speechServerFactory is None.

* Improvements to the "orca" shell script.  Provides better
availability and also provides a better means for killing/restarting
Orca.

* New orca.desktop file and icon.

* New latent support to allow the setting of the source and target
displays for magnification.  If it exists,
settings.magnifierTargetDisplay will be treated as an X Window System
DISPLAY string (e.g., ":0.1") that says where to display the magnified
area (the default is split screen magnification on the primary
display).  If it exists, settings.magnifierSourceDisplay will be
treated as an X Window System DISPLAY string (e.g., ":0.0") that says
what is to be magnified.
	
* Many thanks to our friends at Baum for providing many fixes and
testing for the Java platform:

   * Fix for bug 351891: provide better handling when receiving an
     active descendant changed for an object with no active
     descendant.

   * Fix for bug 350740: report combo box selection change for Java
     applications.

   * Fix for bug 350736: better presentation for focused lists in Java
     applications.

   * Fix for bug 350739: improve list navigation for the Java platform. 

   * Fix for bug 350724: improve handling of LABEL_FOR and LABELLED_BY
     objects.

   * Fix for bug 351914: provide better support for combo boxes on
     Java platform.

   * Fix for bug 352233: prevent exception when getting the child of
     an object from a Java application.

   * Fix for bug 352238: do not assume last input event was a keyboard 
     event.
	
* Fix for bug 350213: provide defensive programming for combo box
braille generator.

* Fix for bug 351501: do not generate a traceback when trying to
braille Evolution message folder tree.

* Fix for bug 350854: handle object:state-changed:focused events so
Orca will recognize when GEdit's edit area has focus again after a
maximize/unmaxmize of GEdit's window on GNOME 2.15/16.
	
* Fix for bug 352073: provide "gnome-python with bonobo" hint for
missing dependency.  Also provide a note at the end providing a more
obvious message when support for BrlTTY/BrlAPI cannot be found.

* Fix for bug 351847: add defensive code in the event the AT-SPI
implementation gives us a cycle when looking at the
RELATION_NODE_CHILD_OF relation.
	
* Fix for bug 349465: take some defensive actions in the event that
the AT-SPI implementation has implemented getTextAtOffset incorrectly
(i.e., it gives back garbage for offsets).

* Fix for bug 350218: GtkDemo Editable cells tree demo no longer
speaks both cells in a row

* Fix for bug 350294: Eliminate TypeError in _initGUIState in GUI prefs.

* Fix for bug 350212: Improve speaking of Spin Button changes.

* New/Updated Translations (Thanks!): 

    Catalan:     Josep Puigdemont i Casamajó (NEW)
    Chinese:     (Traditional Hong Kong) Chao-Hsiung Liao
    Chinese:     (Traditional Taiwan) Chao-Hsiung Liao
    Dzongkha:    Guntupalli Karunakar
    Finnish:     Ilkka Tuohela
    German:      Hendrik Brandt
    Greek:       Nikos Charonitakis
    Gujarati:    Ankit Patel
    Japanese:    Satoru SATOH (NEW)
    Korean:      Changwoo Ryu (NEW)
    Lithuanian:  Žygimantas Beručka (NEW)
    Macedonian:  Jovan Naumovski
    Marathi:     Rahul Bhalerao (NEW)
    Norwegian:   (Bokmål) Sigurd Gartmann
    Oriya:       Subhransu Behera (NEW)
    Russian:     Nickolay V. Shmyrev (NEW)
    Spanish:     Francisco Javier F. Serrador
    Swedish:	 Danial Nylander
    Tino Meinen: Vincent van Adrighem
    Ukrainian:   Maxim Dziumanenko
    Vietnamese:  Clytie Siddall

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* Where can I get it ?
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Source code:
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/orca/0.9/orca-0.9.0.tar.gz
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/orca/0.9/orca-0.9.0.tar.bz2

Enjoy.

Will, Mike, Rich, Lynn, and the Orca community