Re: [orca-list] Color name support just added to Orca master

[Krishnakant Mane <krmane gmail com>]

Sounds really great.
I think I will try this on gnome-shell 3.10
Happy hacking.
Krishnakant.On Sunday 11 May 2014 02:29 PM, Joanmarie Diggs wrote:
> Hey all.
>
> I have just committed color name support to Orca. This support
> translates the RGB numbers Orca reports for text foreground and
> background color into names that are hopefully more understandable.
>
> In my testing thus far, the following are working as I would expect:
> * LibreOffice Writer
> * Firefox and Thunderbird
> * Gtk+ 2, Gtk+ 3, and VTE where color is set ahead of time
>
> But I have found a number of cases where the RGB value we get via
> AT-SPI2 is incorrect. Not sure why yet. Regardless, as a result, Orca is
> translating the bogus value into a correspondingly-bogus name. Garbage
> in, garbage out.
>
> The apps/toolkits where I am aware of these issues are:
> * Epiphany/WebKitGtk
> * GNOME Shell
> * Gtk+ 2, Gtk+ 3 , and VTE where color is changed based on context
>
> What I mean by changed based on context are things like viewing code in
> Gedit where Gedit displays comments in a different color because they
> happen to be comments.
>
> I'll do some triaging and bug filing for the above issues soon.
>
> The last thing I'll mention is that right now, this is not a
> GUI-configurable option. I'll worry about that another time. But for
> those of you who use Orca master want RGB values and not names, you can
> set useColorNames to False in your orca-customizations.py.
>
> Take care.
> --joanie
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