Ms. Diggs,
The gnome magnifier's position can be controlled through DBUS or g-settings. Orca already gets information about the currently focused widget from some hook in some API. If that information includes a rectangle then this is very very easy assuming that the documented gsetting works...
https://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell/Magnification#org.gnome.Magnifier.ZoomRegion
Writting it into Orca has two advantages, it's less code, and as Mr Thibalt said in one interview, on multi user systems it should be easy to install "accessibility support by default." Which would mean that we wouldn't want to make a whole new package that would hook the same API, potentially conflict with Orca, and need to be installed separately.
---------- PÅvodnà zprÃva ----------
Od: Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs igalia com>
Datum: 17. 5. 2012
PÅedmÄt: Re: [orca-list] Magnifier
The GNOME 3 magnifier is expected to have cursor and focus tracking done
for 3.6.
And for what it's worth, Orca is a screen reader. It never had a
magnifier; it drove gnome-mag -- which didn't do cursor and focus
tracking either. (Mind you, the windows and mac solutions seem to be
able to do this without screen readers driving them. Go figure....)
Snarky comments aside, Orca trying to be too many things to too many
people is not good for Orca or the bulk of its users. This is only
compounded by the fact that in different environments there are
different magnifiers. Orca cannot drive them all, even if it wanted to.
For this reason, we encourage magnification solutions, such as the GNOME
3 magnifier, to implement cursor and focus tracking -- as the GNOME 3
magnifier is going to do. That way, people who don't need a screen
reader will have tracking.
Take care.
--joanie
On 05/17/2012 05:18 PM, timothyhobbs seznam cz wrote:
> I just looked at gnome3's magnifier, and indeed it has no cursor tracking.
> Which would mean that there has been a regression. Since in Orca's old
> magnifier cursor tracking was available...
_______________________________________________
orca-list mailing list
orca-list gnome org
http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/orca-list
Visit http://live.gnome.org/Orca for more information on Orca.
The manual is at http://library.gnome.org/users/gnome-access-guide/nightly/ats-2.html
The FAQ is at http://live.gnome.org/Orca/FrequentlyAskedQuestions
Log bugs and feature requests at http://bugzilla.gnome.org
Find out how to help at http://live.gnome.org/Orca/HowCanIHelp