Re: [orca-list] Can we drop FireVox support in Orca?

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

Thanks Michael!  Good enough - we'll keep it.

At a minimum, however, would you be OK with us disabling the support by 
default and then requiring you to edit your user-settings.py or 
orca-customizations.py files to re-enable it?  We could alternatively 
add an enable/disable checkbox to the GUI preferences dialog, but I'd 
like to avoid exposing it at that level if we can.

Will

Michael Whapples wrote:
> Hello,
> I will state one use of firevox which I am unaware of orca providing,
> but should orca and firefox provide a solution (which in my mind might
> be more preferrable as the mechanisms which would be used might be able
> to be used by other software, and braille support might be possible)
> then firevox support would not be needed. The case I am on about is
> mathml. Admittedly the firevox support has limitations, it doesn't know
> all the characters and other more complicated maths stuff, but I feel
> some access is better than none. I will also admit that currently I am
> not actively using firevox for this at the moment, but there may be
> times in the future and in the past where I may/have benefitted from
> access to mathml documents.
>
> I know there may be more important features orca needs and there may be
> very good reasons for dropping this support, so I hope you will use the
> above while making the decission, so as to improve orca in the best way
> with the resources available.
>
> Michael Whapples
> On Fri, 2008-04-04 at 16:42 -0400, Willie Walker wrote:
> > Hey All:
> >
> > Before your heart stops and your flaming fingers start typing: that's 
> > Charles Chen's FireVox with a 'V'.  Not Mozilla's Firefox.
> >
> > Is anyone depending upon Orca for FireVox's speech synthesis output? 
> > The support is currently done via a hacky HTTP server in Orca and I'm 
> > considering getting rid of that server for various reasons.  The main 
> > impact will be on FireVox users that use Orca for the TTS output -- I'm 
> > guessing there are no real users of this feature, but I want to be sure.
> >
> > Please only respond if you are using this feature and it will impact you 
> > negatively if it goes away.
> >
> > Will
> >
> > PS - Again, please respond only if this will have a negative impact on 
> > you.  Here's an example of a response that will not help: "The HTTP 
> > server support in Orca is bad.  You suck."
>
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