Re: Announcing Orca 0.9.0

[Janina Sajka <janina rednote net>]

Orca rpms are now available for Fedora at all Red Hat mirror sites in
the development tree. As we would expect, this means that Orca will be
present, by default, with installations of the forthcoming Fedora Core
6. I would also expect to see Orca available in the standard Fedora
distribution channels for the Test 3 prerelease of FC6.

An easy way, therefore, to install orca on recent Fedora systems
(including the current FC5) is:

yum --disablerepo='*' --enablerepo=development install orca

This command will also pick up brlapi and any missing dependencies.

Since Red Hat is now providing Orca rpms, ftp.rednote.net will cease
providing them.


Janina

Willie Walker writes:
> ==============
> * What is it ?
> ==============
> 
> 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.
> 
> ==================
> * What's changed ?
> ==================
> 
> ==========
> Orca 0.9.0
> ==========
> 
> * 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
> 
> ======================
> * Where can I get it ?
> ======================
> 
> 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
> 
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