Re: [orca-list] links list

[Krishnakant Mane <krmane gmail com>]

+1 for Thomas.
And I never missed it that seriously.
the links only search with firefox does the job for me better than a 
links list.
Happy hacking.
Krishnakant.
On 12/07/2012 09:16 AM, 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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