Re: [orca-list] GNOME Weather applet?

[Mario Lang <mlang delysid org>]

Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM> writes:

> I don't see a way to modify the GNOME Weather applet.  :-(  I needed a
> short break from stuff that was spinning my head around, though, so I
> took a look at a way for you to add your own keyboard command to speak
> the result of calling a command line application.  In this case, I used
> 'weather', which I grabbed via "sudo apt-get install weather-util" on
> Ubuntu.
>
> Here's what I put in my ~/.orca/orca-customizations.py file.

First of all, thanks a lot for this nice example.  This is great
for starting me of with customisations.  Since I primarily use
braille, the actual functionality implemented by this example
is not that useful to me though.  After all, there is already
the details window from GNOME Weather, which just works fine with
orca.  Let me rephrase my question:  Is there
a way to programmatically replace the accessible name
of a certain object on the desktop in Orca?  With this, I could replace
"GNOME Wather" (which is currently displayed in braille and spoken
when I cycle through the panel applets) with some custom
created string.  I could then factor the temperature into
that and therefore fix up the accessibility of the applet, without
having to hack the applet code itself.

Its not really important for me to get exactly the Weather applet
working, I guess I am just trying to learn how to script things
in Orca, and this seems like a sufficiently simple example to start with.

> It binds Insert+w to the weather as output by the weather
> application.  I see that Concord NH has 16MPH winds with gusts up to
> 24MPH.  That's going to make the bike races a challenge tonight.
>
> import commands
> import orca.input_event
> import orca.keybindings
> import orca.orca
> import orca.speech
> from orca.orca_i18n import _
>
> def sayWeather(script, inputEvent=None):
>     message = commands.getoutput("weather con | tail -4")
>     orca.speech.speak(message)
>     return True
>
> sayWeatherHandler = orca.input_event.InputEventHandler(
>     sayWeather,
>     _("Prints weather information."))
>
> myKeyBindings = orca.keybindings.KeyBindings()
>
> myKeyBindings.add(orca.keybindings.KeyBinding(
>     "w",
>     1 << orca.settings.MODIFIER_ORCA,
>     1 << orca.settings.MODIFIER_ORCA,
>     sayWeatherHandler))
>
> orca.settings.keyBindingsMap["default"] = myKeyBindings
>
> Will
>
> On Thu, 2007-05-03 at 13:16 +0200, Mario Lang wrote:
> > Hi.
> >
> > When I use the GNOME Weather applet with Orca, I have to invoke
> > Ctrl+d (Details) on the panel icon to actually be able
> > to read the weather report.
> >
> > Is it possible to enhance the GNOME Weather applet such that
> > it directly displays the temperature, just like the Clock
> > applet directly displays the time?

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