Re: [orca-list] Flag Day: The refactoring has begun

[Storm Dragon <stormdragon2976 gmail com>]

Hi,
Awesome. Sounds like lots of changes/hard work. How does the customizations.py file need to change to support the new structure?
Thanks
Storm

--

"Every day is Halloween"
Type O Negative
Registered Linux user number 508465:
http://counter.li.org/
My blog, Thoughts of a Dragon:
http://www.stormdragon.us/
My Blackberry is Broken:
http://is.gd/my_blackberry_is_broken

On Mon, 2011-01-17 at 15:53 -0500, Joanmarie Diggs wrote:
> Hey gang.
>
> The unstable branch may start to live up to its name. We hope not, but 
> we can use your help testing. Important: Before you run off to pull the 
> latest from master, please read this message:
>
> 1. You will want to be sure to uninstall -- or otherwise remove -- your
>     currently-installed Orca *if* you plan to install the current master
>     into the same location.
>
> 2. Default.py has been moved to within the scripts dir. This is one of
>     the reasons item number one matters. If you have local scripts
>     and/or an orca-customizations.py and/or any app settings files which
>     import the default script, these will need to updated.
>
> 3. presentation_manager.py and focus_tracking_presenter.py are no more.
>     The have been removed. Long ago, and before my time working on Orca,
>     I believe the plan was to have multiple types of "presentation
>     managers," one of which was the focus tracking presenter. Still
>     hasn't happened, nor can I think of what new presentation manager
>     we'd create. <shrugs>
>
> 4. There is a new event_manager.py and a new script_manager.py. They do
>     as advertised. And they are where much of what used to be in the
>     focus tracking presenter wound up. But mind you, I didn't copy and
>     paste. I read each line of code, researched the history behind some
>     of it, thought carefully about it all. And then tore much of it
>     apart and reworked it, removing what was obsolete or duplicated.
>     Things seem a tad snappier as a result, too.
>
> 5. Script mapping is done differently; it's a function of the script
>     manager and no longer in settings.py.
>
> 6. Our first attempt at supporting multiple versions of a script will
>     be with Yelp. Yelp 2 and Yelp 3. The former is gecko-based; the
>     latter is WebKitGtk based. I'm guessing no one has the latter yet.
>     But we need to be ready for those of you who wind up with it.
>     The changes made should hopefully happily detect and work with
>     whichever version you are using. By the way, this necessitated
>     moving the current yelp script out from its original location.
>
> I think those are all the big changes. There were some smaller ones 
> along the way too. But as you're probably concluding, "There is no way 
> on earth Joanie could have done all that without messing *something* 
> up." <grins> I've tested, I've regression tested, Ale has reviewed, but, 
> yeah. I'm sure I missed something. So for those of you who have 
> non-production environments in which you can beat on these changes and 
> let me know what you discover, it would be double-plus awesome.
>
> After I send this, I will push the changes.
>
> Thanks guys! Take care.
> --joanie
> _______________________________________________
> orca-list mailing list
> orca-list gnome org
> http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/orca-list
> Visit http://live.gnome.org/Orca for more information on Orca.
> The manual is at http://library.gnome.org/users/gnome-access-guide/nightly/ats-2.html
> The FAQ is at http://live.gnome.org/Orca/FrequentlyAskedQuestions
> Netiquette Guidelines are at http://live.gnome.org/Orca/FrequentlyAskedQuestions/NetiquetteGuidelines
> Log bugs and feature requests at http://bugzilla.gnome.org
> Find out how to help at http://live.gnome.org/Orca/HowCanIHelp