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

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

Hi Mike:

Joanie and Rich did some really great magnification support enhancements 
for the Orca v2.21.4 release:

http://mail.gnome.org/archives/orca-list/2007-December/msg00200.html

If you have a chance, I encourage you to try it out and send us your 
feedback.  There's still time for GNOME 2.22 to make changes.

Will

Mike Wigle wrote:
> 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
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>
>
> -----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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