Re: [orca-list] Question about Magnifier Zoomer settings

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

Just to follow up, I've added the "{top,bottom,right,left} half of the 
screen" notes to http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=452316#c14.

Will

Carlos Eduardo Rodrigues Diógenes wrote:
> Hi Bryen,
>
> 2007/11/29, Bryen <suseROCKS bryen com>:
> > I pose this only as a question and not a criticism, as I wish to learn
> > the reasoning behind the development of key pieces of Orca.
> >
> > When I first used Orca with the magnifier, it took up the full right
> > half of my screen.  Personally, I prefer the magnifier to be across the
> > top of my screen.  After some poking around, I found the zoomer settings
> > under the magnifier tab.  It took some trial and error as I tried to
> > figure out what the numeric values meant for top bottom left right.  My
> > settings are now
> >
> > top 1
> > bottom 201
> > left 100
> > right 1014
> >
> > Has there been any discussion about making this easier for the end-user?
> > I was thinking that there are two ways to make it easier:
> >
> > One would be to be able to grab and re-size the magnifier window just
> > like you would any other window on your desktop.
>
> I believe that this a great enhancement to be done in gnome-mag (yeah,
> this is the underlying magnifier program), but I guess that gnome-mag
> will not see any new features in a near future, since in the last
> months I was the only active programmer in it, and I dropped this work
> for an undefined amount of time, since I have other priorities.
>
> > The other way would be to change the zoomer setting options to a more
> > user-friendly set of options.  Like zoomer position = top half, bottom
> > half, left half or right half.
>
> I also think that this can be great and this is really easy to do, and
> be sure, you ask for it in the right mailing list! Probably in the
> next release of orca you will see something like this.
>
> Best regards,
> Carlos.
>
> > Also, out of curiosity, what is the underlying magnifier program?  Is it
> > gnome-mag?
> > --
> > ---Bryen---
> >
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