Re: [orca-list] links list

[Thomas Ward <thomasward1978 gmail com>]

Hi Alex and all,

On 12/6/12, Alex Midence <alex midence gmail com> wrote:
> It'll never happen, my friend.  Nobody who's ever experienced it is
> knowledgeable or motivated enough to put this into Orca or Firefox.

Speaking for myself while I'm a skilled programmer I simply don't know
enough about Orca to add such a feature myself. Plus it doesn't help
that Orca requires the bleeding edge versions of Gnome etc so far
ahead of what stable distributions like Ubuntu 12.04 are using I'd
pretty much have to switch to a totally different distribution of
Linux or build Gnome 3.8 from scratch just to begin looking at working
on such a project. Unless there is a sane way to get Gnome 3.8 on a
Ubuntu 12.04 machine I'm clearly out of the running.

> Nobody who knows how wants to do it.  About a year and a half
> ago, someone actually created the beginnings of a patch for Orca to do
> this.  I don't know why but his patch never made it into Orca and
> noone has pickec up where he left off and, depressingly enough., I
> suspect noone ever will.  I don't think the browsing experience in
> Linux will ever equal the one to be had in Windows.  In this,
> proprietary software is clearly the winner.
I wouldn't go that far, never say never, since it could happen once
access stables out for Gnome. Right now it seems like the guys at
Gnome are constantly pushing out new versions of Gnome and Joanie etc
are doing there best just to keep up with the changes rather than
having time and energy to focus on extra features like this.
Eventually, there may come a time when they can focus specifically on
end user requests, but now it seems like they are doing well enough to
keep up with changes.