Re: Orca Flag Day.

["Al Puzzuoli" <alpuzz gmail com>]

   Hi Rich,

is the "none" key echo setting supposed to be implemented at present?  I've 
rerun orca-setup, and set echo to none, but I'm still getting character echo 
in applications such as gedit and gnome-terminal.

I even created a new user account,  and ran orca-setup under that acount so 
as to work with a completely clean .orca directory with the same result.


--Al



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rich Burridge" <Rich Burridge Sun COM>
To: <orca-list gnome org>
Sent: Friday, April 07, 2006 11:33 AM
Subject: Orca Flag Day.


> If you are checking out the latest Orca from CVS HEAD, then I've just
> checked in some changes that will affect you, and you will need to
> re-run orca-setup before you re-run orca.
>
> These changes are listed below. The main reasons for doing them are:
>
> * Prepare for better key echo which will be (hopefully) coming in the
>  next week or so. Note that currently the "echo by word" and "echo by
>  character" functionality is not fully implemented.
>
> * Make it easier to automatically create the infrastructure to allow
>  users to just put their own Orca application scripts under their
>  .orca directory (under ~/.orca/orca-scripts/ to be exact), should they so
>  desire.
>
> * Allow users to have their own custom Orca Python code, that won't get
>  destroyed if you re-run orca-setup (such as Javier's recent sayTime()
>  routine). You should now put this code in a file called
>  "orca-customizations.py" under your ~/.orca directory.
>
> * Setup the display of the visual braille monitor (useful to sighted 
> people
>   to see what would be happening on the braille display - if present).
>
> Please let me know if you find any problems with these changes.
>
> Thanks.
>
> --
>
>        * src/orca/orca-setup.in
>          Several changes to the orca-setup script:
>          - Removed the "Use key echo?" question and associated
>            orca.settings.USE_KEY_ECHO setting.
>          - Replaced it with:
>            "Echo by word, character, both or none?  Enter w, c, b or n: "
>            which  will set two settings to True or False:
>              orca.settings.USE_ECHO_BY_WORD
>              orca.settings.USE_ECHO_BY_CHAR
>            depending upon the users answer.
>          - Added in another question: "Use Braille Monitor?  Enter y or n: 
> ".
>            The Braille Monitor is a visual representation of what is being
>            brailled by Orca.
>          - Automatically create a "orca-scripts" directory under the
>            users .orca directory, if it doesn't already exist.
>          - Automatically create an empty __init__.py file in the
>            orca-scripts directory, if it doesn't already exist.
>            This will enable the user to put their own specific
>            applications scripts in the orca-scripts directory,
>            and Orca will pick them up.
>          - Added a section of code that will generate the following lines
>            at the end of the user's user-settings.py file:
>
>              try:
>                  __import__("orca-customizations")
>              except ImportError:
>                  pass
>
>            What this means is that Orca will now look for a file
>            called "orca-customizations.py" in the user's .orca directory.
>            This file should contain any custom Orca Python code that the
>            user wants. Having it in a separate file from user-settings.py
>            means it won't get blown away when you rerun orca-setup
>
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