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

[Christopher Chaltain <chaltain gmail com>]

I think this is great, but I also hope it's somewhat configurable. I
know I don't miss not hearing anything when I press control+c, so I'm
not sure if I'm going to want to hear this by default or not.

Two similar features I do enjoy are:

* The Orca+r short cut key in Vinux that tells me what's currently in
the clip board. I find this useful when copying text from a web page in
Firefox where it's hard to know what text I'm copying.

* Using Parcer Light with control+alt+h to see what's currently in the
clip board as well as what I've pasted into the clip board recently.

It also looks like someone pruned the original message, but I seem to
recall something about long pastes, like more than 20 characters. What
Parcer Lite does is read the first handful of characters, like the first
dozen or so and then the last dozen. This might be a good compromise,
since in the case of copying from Firefox, I'd like to know where the
copy started and ended to make sure I got everything I wanted.

On 18/09/12 12:04, Fernando H. F. Botelho wrote:
> Well, from the perspective of the non-technical end-user it is best to
> have an acknowledgement every time he/she presses CTRL C, even if this
> is slightly less elegant from a developer's perspective since the actual
> content might not have changed.
>
> You are right about CTRL V, Orca already verbalizes that, so all is ok.
>
> The problem is when there is total silence after a command is issued.
>
> On 09/18/2012 01:52 PM, Piñeiro wrote:
> > On 09/18/2012 06:31 PM, Fernando H. F. Botelho wrote:
> > > 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.
> >
> > Well that extension just send a notification when the clipboard content
> > changes, so in some way it notifies when the user press Ctrl+C, but:
> >
> > If the user copies exactly the same text, nothing is notified: this is
> > because the extension doesn't check any key combination, it only tracks
> > the clipboard content. This has the advantage that if the user change
> > the clipboard with other way (ie: some applications allows Ctrl+Ins to
> > copy to the clipboard). So it doesn't matter how the clipboard content
> > changes, if it changed is notified. But, that also means that you don't
> > get a notification each time you press Ctrl+C. As I said, only if the
> > clipboard content changes. Is that a problem?
> >
> > In the same way, it doesn't do anything with respect to paste (so
> > Ctrl+V). Anyway, at this moment Orca is already exposing the text
> > changes, so this shouldn't be a problem. Is that Ok?
> >
> >
> > > So thank you for working on this and as soon as we have testing
> > > feedback we will get in touch.
> >
> > Ok, thanks.
> >
> > BR
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Christopher (CJ)
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