Re: [orca-list] qt-at-spi 0.3 released



Hi.
Is there a ppa from where I can install or do I need to compile manually?
Thanks.

On 04/12/2012 11:33 AM, Frederik Gladhorn wrote:
Hi,
after less than a month I'm happy to release qt-at-spi 0.3.0.
This project keeps evolving and as you'd expect in an accessibility plugin
that is completely hidden from the user, development is just about bugfixing
and getting it in shape to play nice with other existing infrastructure.
What made me happy this time around, and what triggered the short cycle since
the last release is that I started getting more and more feedback from Orca
users.

Thanks to Joanie and Mike and others I could finally nail down some old issues
in the tree view handling.
As always this goes together with some fixes in Qt itself, so you might want
to grab the 4.8 branch of Qt that will soon be 4.8.2 if you want to try the
latest and greatest.

The qt-at-spi bridge enables accessibility via screen readers for Qt
applications on Linux.

Changes since 0.2:
* Send keyboard events only when someone is listening
* Fix caching of tree and table items (Orca will no longer read outdated data)
* Fix at least one crash and one off-by-one error when reading tree items
* The usual internal cleanup and improvments that won't be noticable

Dependencies: Qt 4.8.0 and newer.

What is that thing? A bridge that lets Qt applications interface with the AT-
SPI accessibility framework that GNOME provides. For users that mostly means
that the Orca screenreader should work nicely with Qt applications.

You need a distribution that uses AT-SPI 2 (check your packages, any recent
distro should do, this is part of standard GNOME).

The source can be found here:
https://gitorious.org/qt-at-spi

Download the tar.gz from gitorious:
http://gitorious.org/qt-at-spi/qt-at-spi/archive-tarball/v0.3.0
sha256sum 2dab85affdb63af2b6c53c05cb837c267bf3bb0da6b47f6311193051f4121a9c
md5sum 4f144304b4b3bcbf01b1ddd989aab671
It doesn't give a file with file name extension, but extracting it should work
fine.

The plugin for Qt 4 does not get loaded unless an environment variable gets
set, so there should be no risk of anyone blowing up their system.

In order to enable the plugin, export "QT_ACCESSIBILITY=1".

For Qt 5 this is no longer needed.

Cheers
Frederik
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