Re: [orca-list] What did you do to Thunderbird?

[Hermann <meinelisten onlinehome de>]

Rich Burridge <Rich Burridge Sun COM> writes:
[...]
> > Something must have gone terribly wrong, either in Orca or in Thunderbird.
>
> Nope. The Thunderbird developers have just decided that their application is now
> called Shredder rather than Thunderbird. We had no way of predicting
> they were about to make this change. They certainly didn't think to
> let us know.
>
> I've just checked in an alias for this name to Orca SVN trunk, to map
> it to the Thunderbird script.
Thank you.

> If you can think of ways we can improve handling unexpected changes
> like this in Orca, we'd like to hear from you.
I always thought that there is a close cooperation between the Orcaa and
the Mozilla team, see the example of Firefox.
And BTW: What's the cause of that strange keyboard layout behavior? On a
German keyboard the
backslash gets invoked by pressing the right alt-key together with the
German "ß", but Orca recognizes a backslash without using the right
alt-key. However: When I redesign the layout the "ß" key is suddenly
recognized correctly, so that it can be used together with the Orca key.
Question: How does Orca recognize keyboard presses, and how is
localization handled?
Hermann

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