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

["Mike Wigle" <Mike Wigle cincyblind org>]

Is there any documentation anywhere on how to do it? I'm running a fresh copy of Ubuntu 7.10 and an ATI 
Radeon X1300 video card. I haven't grabbed the latest Orca yet because I've had to do some Vista testing 
lately but would really like to be able to show Gnome-mag in full screen view. Thanks in advance for any info 
you can provide.

Michael Wigle
Computer Access Specialist
Cincinnati Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired
2045 Gilbert Ave.
Cincinnati, OH 45202
Office: 513-487-4243
Web: http://www.cincyblind.org



-----Original Message-----
From: William Walker Sun COM [mailto:William Walker Sun COM] 
Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2007 11:54 AM
To: Mike Wigle
Cc: orca-list gnome org
Subject: Re: [orca-list] Question about Magnifier Zoomer settings

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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