Announcing Orca v2.29.2



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* What is Orca?
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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 development has been led by the Sun Microsystems, Inc., Accessibility Program Office via continued engagement with its end users and generous contributions from the Mozilla Foundation and wonderful community members.

You can read more about Orca at http://live.gnome.org/Orca.

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* What's changed for Orca v2.29.2?
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2.29.2 - 16-Nov-2009

NOTE - as a result of work on bgo#598917, you must now use
"orca --replace" if you want the new Orca process to kill any existing
processes.  Prior to this, merely running "orca" would automatically
kill any existing processes.  The new behavior is more consistent with
the way singleton instances are handled by many other applications.

General:

* Provisional support for the GNOME Shell Magnifier (a work in
  progress)

* Fix for bgo#554688 - Navigation in gconf-editor doesn't work

* Fix for bgo#597159 - Orca does not provide access to the contents of
  Packagemanager's HTML container

* Fix for bgo#597170 - Add support for Banshee script (thanks Eitan!)

* Fix for bgo#598917 -  Orca Multiple Instances

  NOTE: you must now use "orca --replace" if you want the new Orca
  process to kill any existing Orca process. Prior to this, merely
  running "orca" would automatically kill any existing processes.  The
  new behavior is more consistent with the way singleton instances are
  handled by many other applications.

* Fix for bgo#600372 - Orca handles text configuration input
  incorrectly

* Fix for bgo#600539 - Man page improvements (thanks Arky!)

New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):

    ca	        Catalan		     Gil Forcada
    hu          Hungarian            Attila Hammer and Gabor Kelemen
    nb		Norwegian bokmål     Kjartan Marass
    sl	     	Slovenian	     Matej Urbančič

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* Where can I get it?
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You can obtain Orca v2.29.2 in source code form at the following:

http://download.gnome.org/sources/orca/2.29/orca-2.29.2.tar.gz
http://download.gnome.org/sources/orca/2.29/orca-2.29.2.tar.bz2

Enjoy!

The Orca Team



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