Re: Orca Quiting orca

[Rich Burridge <Rich Burridge Sun COM>]

Henrik Nilsen Omma wrote:
> Actually we are looking for a more GUI-based way to quit Orca, for 
> non-VI users and magnifier users. It relates to the menu integration 
> post I made to the list last week.
>
> Ideally we should have a button on the Orca GUI [Quit Orca] that 
> essentially does Insert + q.
>   

Okay, let's try this again. I'm more awake now.

If I remember rightly, you were suggesting having three Orca related
menu items under the Ubuntu Accessibility menu. Something like:

1/ Start Orca
2/ Start Orca Preferences
3/ Stop Orca

1/ is straight forward. 3/ can now be done by starting "orca --quit".
So that leaves #2. How about something like this:

There are already a couple nice tools included with the Orca distribution.

.../orca/src/tools/record_keystrokes.py will record any key strokes you
make and write them in a certain format to stdout.

.../orca/src/tools/play_keystrokes.py will play back any keystrokes from
a file on stdin (assuming they are written in that special format).

Using record_keystrokes.py, I "recorded" Insert-Space being typed, into
a file. It's called "show_preferences" and a copy is attached to this 
message.

I then started up Orca, and in a terminal window ran:

python play_keystrokes.py < show_preferences

This automatically bought up the Orca Preferences GUI dialog.

I bet you could easily hook all this up to launch via the #2 menu item 
above.

> Key bindings like Insert-q are not very accessible to GUI-trained 
> non-technical Ubuntu users :) Esp. when it's not well documented in the 
> OS itself.
>   

Couple of things here.

1/ Mike Pedersen has told me that the special keystrokes we are using in 
Orca
should be familiar to users of other screen readers. I just went to look 
at what
JAWS uses:

 http://www.unt.edu/ACSGAL/jawskeys.html

and it seems to use INSERT+6 for its Configuration Manager. Hmm. Mike, can
you help out here?

2/ We are in the process of writing a simple Orca manual page; what you 
would
get in a terminal window if you type "man orca". It already has a reference
to the GNOME Accessibility Guide, but it looks like I should also include a
section giving all the special Orca commands. I'll add that in tomorrow.

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