Re: [orca-list] Braille word wrap preference bug

[Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs igalia com>]

Duh. Should be fixed in master and gnome-3-28 branch. Please test and
let me know. Thanks!
--joanie

On 06/28/2018 06:01 PM, Shérab wrote:
> Hi,
>
> (Presenting joint work with Samuel, Alex and Jean-Philippe.)
>
> As I understand it, by default the braille word wrap preference is
> supposed to be disabled. However, it turns out that it is not: if one
> runs orca for the first time (no .local/share/orca directory in home)
> and opens the preference dialog and visits the braille pannel, the
> braille word wrap preference will be enabled.
>
> I believe that the issue comes from the file src/orca/orca_gui_prefs.py,
> which states on lines 1526-1527 of master:
>
>         self.get_widget("enableBrailleWordWrapCheckButton").set_active(
>             prefs.get("enableBrailleWordWrap", settings.speakContextPanel))
>
>
> The `settings.speakContextPanel` looks very odd to me.
>
> If I am correct, I would suggest to fix this as soon as possible,
> because as far as we could experiment, the braille word wrapping mode
> does not work very well so having it as the default does not sound very
> nice for the user experience.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Shérab.
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