Re: [orca-list] links list

[Jason White <jason jasonjgw net>]

Thomas Ward <thomasward1978 gmail com> wrote:
 
> 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. 

Depending on the project, you could work on it with a stable version of Orca
(e.g., 3.6 at the moment), then forward-port the changes. Ubuntu 12.10
reportedly uses a Python 3 version of Orca, so you wouldn't have to deal with
the Python 2 to Python 3 transition after upgrading to Ubuntu 12.10.

I'm not an Ubuntu user, so I can't comment on how stable 12.10 is at this
point, or on whether that upgrade would be a good move or not.

It might be better to wait in any case for some of the Gnome changes to settle
down; I'm just pointing out that there are options available that don't
involve installing alpha or beta versions of Gnome and its dependencies.