Re: [orca-list] Magnifier

[Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs igalia com>]

On 05/18/2012 02:14 PM, timothyhobbs seznam cz wrote:
> The gnome magnifier's position can be controlled through DBUS or g-settings.

Indeed.

>   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... 

I know how to do this. In fact, quite some time ago I gave the
gnome-shell magnifier developer a quick and dirty python script which
demonstrated how he could accomplish this.

> Writting it into Orca has two advantages, it's less code, 

It means adding code to Orca. And for users who do not need Orca, it
means adding code to gnome-shell magnifier. Seems like more code to me.

>  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.

Implementing this in gnome-shell mag will not interfere with or conflict
with or do <insert bad thing here> to Orca or its users.

And what about users of unity? Do you expect Orca to drive compiz eZoom?
And what about users of KDE? Shall Orca try to drive their magnifier?

--joanie