Re: [orca-list] Orca caps-lock fix

[Joanmarie Diggs <joanied gnome org>]

Hey all.

On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 17:39, Luke Yelavich <luke yelavich canonical com> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 09, 2011 at 09:33:09AM EST, Bill Cox wrote:
> > On my system, I got it working with a patch to Orca to use setxkbmap,
> > and by editing some configuration files in the xkeyboard-config
> > package to add a new caps lock configuration, which I called "orca".
> > Done this way, this option shows up in the Keyboard settings dialog
> > along with the other settings for the caps lock key, which is kind of
> > cool. ÂI have Orca enable the orca mode with:
> >
> > setxkbmap -option caps:orca
> >
> > and disable it with:
> >
> > setxkbmap -option
>
> Awesome find! I think the orca preset in the xkb settings could probably
> be renamed to something more generic, then it should be a matter of
> justifying it upstream, which I don't think will be a problem.

+1 to more generic.

> I'm not willing to put either patch into Ubuntu until both patches are
> applieddddddddddddd upstream. Backporting the patches won't be a
> problem, but upstream is where they should be first, so its less work
> for downstream distros to carry them in the future.

Agreed.

Bill if you could attach your Orca patch to the following bug:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=658122 It would be awesome.
In addition, after you file the bug related to xkb please add a link
to that bug as a comment to 658122 so I can track it and then make the
changes in Orca after the required xkb changes have been made.

Thanks much for digging into this!

Take care.
--joanie