Re: [orca-list] orca and xboard

[chrys87 <chrys87 web de>]

Hi vilmar, hi list,

i did a look a this great work.
its great that the game is accessible for visual impaired :). great job! 
thanks for doing that.
i found a few strange things:
- I start a new party, (play vs computer, i play white on the bottom 
side of the field): i select the right knight. If i press the arrow up 
key now (to select a new field), the focus is somewhere it say 'lower 
as' button (german: "kleiner als" Druckknopf. after that i have to press 
arrow down do go back to the gamefield. now i could press again arrow up 
to focus the next field. ( i would like to set the new field without 
focusing the "<" button. (is that possible? because that makes playing 
the game hard)
- is it possible to change the order of that whas announced? it would be 
cool if first the piece on a field is spoken and after that the 
coordinates are spoken. ( because its more usefull, if i m on
B1 and Press arrow left i know where i m :), the piece is more 
interesting to me )
- a neat feature is also to announce if i unselect a piece :).

- sometimes a strange "panel" appears with "translation information" 
could i disable it somewhere? or is this just for debugging because its 
a git :)?

for anyone in the list who like to try this cool stuff in archlinux i 
did a small change at the current xboard-git PKGBUILD from AUR. its not 
perfect but it installs and remove nicely :). here it comes:
####PGKBUILD START######
# Maintainer: chrys87

pkgname=xboard-gtk3-git
pkgrel=1
pkgver=20150720
pkgdesc="A graphical user interfaces for chess"
arch=('i686' 'x86_64')
url="http://www.gnu.org/software/xboard/";
license=('GPL3')
depends=('gnuchess' 'gtk3' 'desktop-file-utils' 'librsvg')
makedepends=('git')
_reponame=xboard
provides=("$_reponame")
conflicts=("$_reponame")
source=("git://git.savannah.gnu.org/xboard.git#branch=gtk3")
backup=("etc/$_reponame/$_reponame.conf")
md5sums=('SKIP')

pkgver()
{
    cd "$srcdir/$_reponame"
    git log -1 --format="%cd" --date=short | sed 's|-||g'
}

build()
{
    cd "$srcdir/$_reponame"

    # using gnuchess, which is in repo as default chess engine
    sed -i 's/fairymax/gnuchess/' gtk/xboard.h xaw/xboard.h xboard.conf
    ./autogen.sh
    ./configure --prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/man \
        --sysconfdir=/etc/xboard --disable-rpath --disable-update-mimedb \
        --enable-zippy --with-gtk
    make
}

package()
{
    cd "${srcdir}/$_reponame"
    make DESTDIR="${pkgdir}" install
}
###PKGBUILD END######





Am 17.07.2015 um 13:11 schrieb José Vilmar Estácio de Souza:
> Thanks for the info.
> Seems that the problem was the lack of the --with-gtk option in the 
> configure command.
> The program is working again.
> Thanks.
>
>
>
>
> On 07/17/2015 07:12 AM, Nalin.x.Linux wrote:
> > On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 2:57 PM, José Vilmar Estácio de Souza
> > <vilmar informal com br> wrote:
> > > Hi all.
> > > Today I updated the development version of xboard through a 'git 
> > > pull' and
> > > after that the xboard became inaccessible  in my arch box.
> > > I call the app but orca stay completely mute.
> > > Thanks.
> > >
> > > --
> > > José Vilmar Estácio de Souza
> > dear José, Recently I done some change in configure.ac. So you have to
> > do one more pull and make sure you are in gtk3 branch by running
> > following command.
> > git checkout gtk3
> > Then compile again after configuring with "--with-gtk" argument.  Or
> > do the entire process again with following commands
> >
> > sudo apt-get install fairymax texinfo libgtk-3-dev build-essential
> > git clone git://git.savannah.gnu.org/xboard.git --depth=1
> > git checkout gtk3
> > autoreconf --install
> > ./configure --prefix=/usr --with-gtk
> > make
> > sudo make install
> >
> > Good luck!