Re: [orca-list] Orca and gnome 3

[Joanmarie Diggs <joanmarie diggs gmail com>]

Hi Jacob, all.

Some applications not appearing/emitting events is a known issue. And I
hope to diagnose and fix it soon.

There were known issues related to starting and stopping of Orca. I
*believe* I've got all of those fixed, though I plan to do additional
testing. Unfortunately, those changes required a bunch of testing to be
sure they were safe. By the time I had fully tested them and requested
code freeze break, I did not get the required number of approvals from
the Release Team. That was my fault. Regardless, the result is that I
was not allowed to commit the needed changes until code freeze was
lifted. Thus the 3.0.0 release of Orca was out the door, and then the
fixes committed.

So in order to get the most likely chance of success with GNOME 3.0 at
the moment (notice that I didn't say "full success"), you'll want to
have the latest Orca **from the gnome-3-0 branch**. In this particular
case, you do *not* want Orca from master. There are enough differences
in what we need to do for GNOME 3 compared to other environments that if
it's specifically related to GNOME 3, it's only going into the branch
*for now*. As things settle down, Ale and I will find a way to have a
single Orca which happily lives in whatever environment you choose to
use.

Take care.
--joanie