Re: [orca-list] Heads up: Rolename refactor has begun

[Robert cole <rkcole72984 gmail com>]

Hello, Joanie!

It's working great so far!

I finally successfully built Orca from Master, along with the latest 
AT-SPI2 packages! I am going to try to write up a step-by-step procedure 
for doing this, and hopefully it will be of help to others.

Thanks for all of the hard work!

On 02/22/2012 12:16 PM, Joanmarie Diggs wrote:
> Hey all.
>
> For a while now, cleaning up the rolename code in Orca has been on my
> to-do list. And a bug that was filed this morning prompted me to start
> working on it now.
>
> A bit of background: Way back before we had pyatspi, the job of
> presenting localized rolenames for accessible objects fell upon Orca's
> shoulders. When pyatspi came along, we were given a means by which to
> obtain the localized rolenames directly from pyatspi and we began to
> fall back on that, but still were not relying upon it. I see no reason
> for us not to rely upon pyatspi to get localized rolenames. And asking
> for this information rather than attempting to generate it ourselves has
> several advantages:
>
> * When new roles get added to ATK and AT-SPI2, Orca can present them
>    without the requirement of having to add strings to Orca and then wait
>    for those new strings to get localized.
> * Less code to maintain in Orca.
> * Less duplicate code in the accessibility tools.
>
> As a result, I've begun this part of the refactor. What you'll
> immediately notice is a change to three roles -- at least that's what
> jumped out at me:
>
> 1. Objects of role entry are now presented as role entry; not role text.
>     (This, by the way, was the change requested in the bug I mentioned.)
> 2. Objects of role push button are now presented as "push button" and
>     not just "button."
> 3. Objects of role page tab are now presented as "page tab" rather than
>     "page."
>
> The rest of the roles seem to be the same -- at least in English.
> Hopefully these slight changes will not be problematic, but if they are
> and hearing "push button" is unthinkable, then let's try to change the
> name we get via pyatspi rather than renaming things ourselves.
>
> Finally, I still have a number of changes to make for this part of the
> refactor. However, I wanted to get the most obvious ones made now and
> give you a heads up so that those of you who like the bleeding edge
> could take it for a spin and report any problems.
>
> Thanks and take care.
> --joanie
>
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