Orca Speaking blank lines

[Nolan Darilek <nolan thewordnerd info>]

Looks like I finally have a working Ubuntu/Orca install. Now I'm  
trying to make it into a usable development/recording environment for  
some projects I'm undertaking.

But, anyway, I experienced a minor annoyance for which I have a  
patch, but before submitting it to bugzilla I want to make sure a)  
there isn't some other way/good reason for things being done this  
way, and b) that I've in fact made the change in the best place for  
it. :) When editing documents, I was annoyed by Orca not speaking  
blank lines, because when I press a key and don't receive any  
feedback I generally assume that nothing happens--I've reached the  
top/bottom of the list/whatever and focus doesn't wrap, there is no  
valid use for that key, etc.

I went to default.py, and noticed that the sayLine() method is  
specifically written to ignore blank lines. So I initialized the  
default voice outside of the "if len(line):" clause, added an "else"  
and spoke the phrase "blank". Now I've got semi-functional speaking  
of blank lines (though there's weirdness in OpenOffice where "blank"  
is sometimes spoken twice, or in addition to the new line.)

Have I implemented this change in the correct place, or is there a  
better way to implement speaking of blank lines when they're arrowed  
through in text areas? It's a feature of all other screen-readers I'm  
aware of, so that the docstring specifically mentions that blank  
lines are ignored has me thinking that perhaps I've implemented this  
in the wrong place. :)

Thanks.