Re: [orca-list] About a new extension: clipboard notification

["Fernando H. F. Botelho" <fernando botelho f123 org>]

Hi Piñeiro,

I am familiar with the debate that took place on the list regarding this 
issue. Yet, among non-technical users we have received ample feedback, 
both from students, teachers, and other F123 users that this is an 
important feature for them.

They all want some kind of acknowledgement of what takes place with CTRL 
C and CTRL V etc. So thank you for working on this and as soon as we 
have testing feedback we will get in touch.

Best regards,

Fernando

On 09/18/2012 01:23 PM, Piñeiro wrote:
> Hi,
>
> while talking about new stuff to add/improve on GNOME, Joanmarie
> mentioned that one feature that appears now and then is getting a
> notification when the content of the clipboard changes. Some examples of
> this now and then here [1] and here [2].
>
> The brief summary of those mails is: that feature doesn't belong to
> Orca. After all, Orca is a screen reader so it should focus on ... well,
> focus on read the screen. On those mails it is mentioned that if the
> user is interested on that feature, "something" should show a
> notification, and Orca would just read it.
>
> But in the same way, I feel that this doesn't fit also as a
> accessibility core feature for the desktop (on GNOME, GNOME Shell). The
> desktop should expose the proper information to be read, and this seems
> something on top. And in the same way it is something that some users
> are interested and some others not. For that "some users are interested
> and some others not", is the reason we concluded that the proper way to
> implement this is with a GNOME Shell extension [4]. For what it worth, a
> extension is just a mechanism to add custom functionality to the
> desktop. On GNOME2 we had something similar on the panel, the applets.
>
> So these days I was implementing a small extension called "Clipboard
> Notification". What it does right now:
>    * When the content of the PRIMARY clipboard changes it sends a
> accessible notification.
>    * The content of that notification is the following:
>       * If the text has less that 20 words: "Clipboard: <all the text>"
>       * If the text has 20 words or more: "Clipboard: X words copied to
> the clipboard"
>
> We (Joanmarie and me) have tested it with GNOME Shell 3.4 and 3.6 (the
> next release of GNOME) and Orca expose it properly. In order to install
> it, you just need to go to the extensions page:
>     https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/451/clipboardnotification/
>
> This feature could be improved, like configuring the number or words,
> and I'm still investigating on how to distribute a translated version of
> the extension. But at this moment, I still consider this as "beta", and
> before working more on this I want to be sure that someone is interested
> on this feature. After all, if nobody uses it, it doesn't worth to use
> my time here.
>
> So, if anyone is interested, please test it, and provide any feedback.
>
> Best regards
>
> [1] https://mail.gnome.org/archives/orca-list/2012-June/msg00056.html
> [2] https://mail.gnome.org/archives/orca-list/2012-June/msg00112.html
> [3] https://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell/Extensions