Re: [orca-list] Heads up: yaml is out, json is in, the settings dialog will pop up again

[Luke Yelavich <themuso ubuntu com>]

On Tue, Feb 08, 2011 at 03:04:54PM EST, Joanmarie Diggs wrote:
> Hey all.
>
> Funny thing about being under the umbrella of a bigger group like
> GNOME: There are rules. <grin> Yaml is not an officially-blessed
> external dependency of GNOME. So yaml had to go. Javi has done the
> work to give us a new json backend (thanks Javi!!). And, yes, we
> know this one is blessed as members of the GNOME Release Team were
> the ones who suggested a json conversion. ;-)

This is somewhat disappointing, as yaml config files could at least be hand edited/written, which was 
particularly useful for configuring orca in a particular way when the Ubuntu live CD boots with accessibility 
profiles enabled. My understanding is that json creates binary files, which of course are not hand 
writable/editable. This is possibly going to be a problem for Ubuntu live CD profile configuration stuff, 
unless I can work out a way to manipulate the settings I need to change in the settings file.

Luke