Re: [orca-list] how to identify in the dash if an application is running

[Luke Yelavich <themuso ubuntu com>]

On Tue, Oct 09, 2012 at 01:24:20AM EST, Dave Hunt wrote:
> I don't see that there is yet a way to do this, but it looks like
> something that can be scripted?  Maybe, when on the dash, orca can
> be set to watch for the glow attribute?  On finding this attribute,
> Orca can say "thunderbird running", for instance?  This seems to
> already happen in Unity 2d.

I think this is something that would need to be done in GNOME shell itself, since Orca wouldn't necessarily 
be able to tell what visual attributes an icon on the dash has, given that sed information is likely not 
exposed over atk.

Luke