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

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

Yes, and it can even be done with GNOME 2.20 and better, I believe.  It 
depends upon your graphics card and your X Server.  I've only 
experimented with it on OpenSolaris, though.  Joanie has played more 
with it on Ubuntu.

Will

Mike Wigle wrote:
> I was curious, will it ever be possible to get full screen magnification out of gnome-mag?
>
> Michael Wigle
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Willie Walker [mailto:William Walker Sun COM] 
> Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2007 11:29 AM
> To: Carlos Eduardo Rodrigues Diógenes
> Cc: orca-list gnome org
> Subject: Re: [orca-list] Question about Magnifier Zoomer settings
>
> 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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