Re: [orca-list] Perhaps I'm dense, but ...

[Joanmarie Diggs <joanmarie diggs gmail com>]

Hi Steve.

> BTW Joannie, when will your cut/paste patches be applied permenantly
> to Orca? if they already have, then I appologize for the dumb
> question.:)

No such thing as a dumb question.

This was Will's most recent comment on the bug:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=513764#c4

> I think we're too late in the GNOME 2.22 cycle to address this one well.  The
> problem I have is that there is support already in GNOME to allow users to
> copy/paste text from labels.  For an example of this, run the "Dialog and
> Message Boxes" demo of gtk-demo and select the "Message Dialog" button.  This
> will bring up a window where you can tab to, navigate (by caret), select (and
> copy the selection) of the labels.  A more generalized solution like this can
> also be useful to all sorts of people.
>
> So, I wonder if we might want to just consider pushing for F7 type support in
> dialogs to enable adding labels in the tab order and also making them
> navigable/selectable?
>
> I'm on the fence, however, because I wonder about the more common (and more
> specialized) problem that arises, which is copy/paste from a terminal window. 
> F7 wouldn't support that, but this patch would.
>
> Thoughts?

So it's definitely not looking like something for this release. And it
looks like something which we (as a community) need to decide what best
suits our (the community as a whole's) needs, both now and in the long
run.  On the one hand, we've got a solution for Orca -- though it might
could use some refinement.  On the other hand, perhaps we can convince
the larger GNOME community to add functionality which would benefit all
users (including those who happen to use Orca).  I also recall one or
two folks (Lorenzo I think was one) stating on the list that this would
be their preference.

HTH.
--Joanie