Re: [orca-list] Status update for Orcas new Plugin System Level 1

[Vojtěch šmiro <vsmiro seznam cz>]

Hello,

sorry for my beginer questions, but is it possible to install it to 
Ubuntu Mate 20.04? What plugins are in it?

Thanks.

Best regards

Vojta.

Dne 08. 06. 21 v 22:35 Andy Borka via orca-list napsal(a):
> One of us will let you know what happens next 😊. I am lagging behind a 
> little with my Ubuntu setup, but getting there😊.
>
> *From:* orca-list <orca-list-bounces gnome org> *On Behalf Of *Joanmarie 
> Diggs
> *Sent:* Tuesday, June 8, 2021 12:08 PM
> *To:* chrys <chrys linux-a11y org>; orca-list <orca-list gnome org>
> *Subject:* Re: [orca-list] Status update for Orcas new Plugin System Level 1
>
> Neat! Looking forward to it.
>
> Before too long I plan to branch to keep 40 stable. Still trying to 
> shave some milliseconds (which add up!) off of Orca's web support which 
> is why I haven't branched yet.
>
> --joanie
>
> On Tue, 2021-06-08 at 15:24 +0200, chrys wrote:
>
>     Howdy Joanie, Howdy List,
>
>     I just did some more work the last days. Just a small update what i did.
>
>      1. I created a new class "orca" in orca.py. this should represent
>         the applications main class in mid term future. We should move
>         all "global" functionality into this to have an entry point for
>         references for our plugins (like already suggested by Andy
>         Borka). I already added some API for signal handling and dynamic
>         storage of objects. last is currently used to have some
>         "compatibility" and keeps all of orcas internal stuff. this
>         should be moved step by step to "real" objects. The handling of
>         dynamic objects is there to register stuff by plugins what could
>         be used by others (as libpeas supports dependencies in plugins,
>         this could be very useful).
>      2. A simple API helper class what supports me a little with a
>         useful functions library.
>      3. Time Plugin: Works! but it currently uses an hard coded
>         shortcut. the binding API of orca is not very friendly to
>         consume. i still have to figure how to get shortcuts for given
>         functionality with loop through list every time. I will come up
>         with some nice compatibility solution here. The User settings of
>         Time is already respected as expected. the shortcut is the
>         default one Orca + t. I removed the build-in functionality
>         completely
>      4. Date Plugin: same situation as for time (hard coded shortcut,
>         user settings respected). the double tap  shortcut (pressing t
>         two times fast Orca + t) works here as well.
>      5. Mouse Review: Works! japp, it reads the object below the mouse
>         pointer for me :)! i completely removed the build-in
>         functionality. It for some quirks in the default.py and
>         web/script_utilities.py are solved by the dynamic API usage. but
>         the plugin is optional. if its not loaded, the stuff still works
>         as expect. i reused almost all the code with some kind of
>         compatibility replace global import of modules by have global
>         variables set by the plugin activation. it respect the settings
>         on startup. toggle shortcut is registered :) but hard coded to
>         orca + e. 
>
>     whats missing (well, as expected, as we wanna take that in an next
>     step):
>
>       * the settings are mostly respected but the keybinding definition
>         stuff.
>       * any UI handling
>
>     @Joanie, let me clean up some stuff then we could take a look at it
>     and take the next step.
>
>     cheers chrys
>
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