Re: [orca-list] links list

[Krishnakant Mane <krmane gmail com>]

There is one thing I must say regarding this,
I feel the biggest feature of free software is that there is *always* a 
potential and most of the time some one or the other who has the 
skillset comes up and does the task.
So least of all pessimism, I infact think this might happen soon, given 
the amount of discussion happening on this thread.
Happy hacking.
Krishnakant.
On Friday 07 December 2012 09:21 AM, Christopher Chaltain wrote:
> Yeah, I would never be so pessimistic to say something would never
> happen. I can't speak to this particular feature myself though, since I
> never used it in Windows and have never felt like I missed it, but I'm
> probably missing out on something.
>
> On 06/12/12 21:46, Thomas Ward wrote:
> > 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.
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