Sounds like a fun feature! Go for it -- submit a patch and we'll take a
look.
Looking forward to seeing a new contributor come on board,
Will
Scott Berry wrote:
> Hi there everyone,
>
> I'd like to throw this out for discussion. I am thinking that it's time
> for Orca to have anautomatic update procedure such as what you see in
> Jaws. It would do the following:
>
> 1. When you go in to the Orca preferences there would be an update
> button on the General Tab or create a new update tab for this feature.
>
> 2. When that button is invoked it would ask if you'd like to check for
> updates.
>
> 3. If there is an update found it would have a radio button rather than
> a list view because then the newest Orca within a certain branch would
> be selected. Also with in this you would have a combo box with the
> different branch numbers. I am thinking for instance: you'd have
> 2.24.2 and then if you go for 2.25 you'd have 2.25.4. I am thinking of
> making it smart enough to check the ftp site and determine the newest
> version.
>
> 4. It would say if your working under a new branch: "Please be careful
> as this may break your current accessibility setup."
>
> 5. It would retrieve the download and set it up automatically. This
> particular version would befor a deb package but maybe there's a tool
> which I could incorporate to turn it in to an rpm.
>
> 6. Then it would say: "Your version of Orca has been successfully
> downloaded and installed. Please wait a few minutes as I restart myself
> and get organized."
>
> I know i have a little humor but heck it's Linux why not have fun with
> it. I'd like to know also if there would be people willing to
> contribute code to this and make it easy for those of us who are Linux
> gurus and newbies as well. I'd also like to make it so there is full
> control of each version so say your an advanced user and you want a
> certain version you would be able to get that and say hit an Install
> button and she goes away and does her thing downloading and installing
> the version called for. I('d have a lot of fun with this I think.
>
>
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