Re: [orca-list] System Voice patch needs your testing

[Storm Dragon <stormdragon2976 gmail com>]

Hi,
It works great so far.
Thanks
Storm

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On Sat, 2010-08-14 at 22:33 -0400, Joanmarie Diggs wrote:
> Hey all.
>
> I've been working with Ale and Juanje on some of the Andalucían bugs,
> especially those which are in danger of not making it into the next
> release due to string and or UI freezes. Reminds me of a quote from one
> of my favorite authors, Douglas Adams: "I love deadlines. I love the
> whooshing sound they make as they fly by." I wish that GNOME were so
> tolerant. But I digress....
>
> Attached to bug 543157 you will find a patch [1] which implements a
> system voice, along with refactoring speech generators to provide ACSS
> per string (i.e. bug 412656). It could really use some testing and
> feedback. 
>
> Given that technically a UI change is being made (addition of an item to
> the "Voice settings:" combo box, if we want to get this in for 2.32,
> technically it needs to be committed to master no later than Monday.
> Therefore, what I'm thinking is that if it works at least "well enough"
> and doesn't break anything, we commit it and then refine/tweak as needed
> as such tweaks will not introduce UI or string changes.
>
> While we had some initial input on the definition of the purpose of a
> system voice, we had to really give it some thought. Having done so, our
> initial implementation makes this distinction (or at least attempts to):
>
> * If it's actual text on the screen, it's the default voice
> * If it's not actual text on the screen, it's the system voice
>
> Thus the label of a checkbox should be spoken in the default voice. The
> role of the checkbox should be in the system voice, as should its
> accelerator key, and its state, and the tutorial message. In the case of
> a misspelled word announcing 'misspelled' should be in the system voice
> because a red squiggly line, while on screen, is not text. I hope this
> makes sense -- and I hope that it's at least in the ballpark of what
> y'all would expect a system voice to be used for.
>
> By default, the system voice is the same as the default voice. That way,
> users who do not like hearing bunches of voices won't notice any change.
> But those of you who would find different voices of value, you can
> modify the System voice via the Orca Preferences dialog.
>
> Again, if y'all could give this your testing love, with the aim of first
> and foremost identifying critical problems which should prevent its
> inclusion in Orca, that would be awesome.
>
> Thanks in advance, and our apologies for the short notice.
> --joanie
>
> [1] http://bugzilla-attachments.gnome.org/attachment.cgi?id=167897
>
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