hi,
that gsettings patch made running orca from git problematic.
basicly, as soon as you installed orca from master, your settings that you had made using the distro installed version of orca would be made null and void.
lucky someone who had sense reverted that patch.
I would have understood it if the gsettings patch had ever been integrated in to upstream, if that had happened, then upgradeing from distro orca to master would not have caused any issues.
I believe that luke yelavitch was the person who may have started work on the gsettings port but was layed off from ubuntu.
he was the main guy for ubuntu accessibility at
Canonical
don't quote me bout that last bit.
sorry for going ot!
I like the plan where the pluggin tab would be added to the orca
Preferences
no re writeing of the hole shebang
it would mean less pain overall write?
or could it be argued that a rewrite of the hole dialog would be of some advantage?
remember this,
there is only one dev that as far as I am aware working on orca.
thanks for reading my message :)
Majid
Maybe I'm missing something, but wouldn't it be simpler to have a "plug-ins" tab in the Orca Preferences that -Lists installed plug-ins. -provides enabled/disable, remove, and preferences buttons for each plug-in. -The preferences button brings up preferences specific to that plug-in. Instead of overhauling the Orca Preferences to integrate plug-in preferences with the bulit-in preferences? Also, maybe I'm misremembering, but wasn't their an issue fairly recently where some Ubuntu-specific patches that force greater integration between Orca and Gsettings causes issues with backing up or copying Orca preferences between machines, especially if the machines are running different distros? Personally, I have no strong opinion on how the GUI is handled, in part because Orca+space fails to launch Orca's preferences on my machine, but I'm in favor of anything that prevents direct editing of .local/share/orca/user-settings.conf from getting any harder or makes it easier, and I'm in favor of keeping backing up, restoring, or copying Orca preferences to another machine staying as simple as copying .local/share/orca. _______________________________________________ orca-list mailing list orca-list gnome org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/orca-list Orca wiki: https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Orca Orca documentation: https://help.gnome.org/users/orca/stable/ GNOME Universal Access guide: https://help.gnome.org/users/gnome-help/stable/a11y.html