Re: Requesting Freeze Breaks for Orca 3.0.0

[Joanmarie Diggs <joanied gnome org>]

On Mon, 2011-04-04 at 14:24 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 2:15 PM, Joanmarie Diggs <joanied gnome org> wrote:
> > Hi Release Team (and i18n Team):
> >
> > The Orca team has three changes which we'd really like to include in the
> > 3.0.0 release today:
> >
> > 1. Bug 646547 - typo in src/orca/orca_gui_prefs.py
> >   https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=646547
> >   Silly typo and grammar mistake. I suspect the i18n team got it
> >   right in their languages. :-) We failed in English, however.
> 
> For this change, you should do the necessary .po file gymnastics to
> update all msgids, to keep translations from breaking.

Okay, if I get my +2 I will check with the i18n team to be sure I know
what those gymnastics are.

> > 2. Bug 646475 - Traceback seen with gnome-speech
> >   https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=646475
> >   It's a two-line, safe change. And while gnome-speech is deprecated
> >   you still find it out there in the distros.
> 
> This one I cannot really judge without knowing what ACSS is or does.
> But I will point out that Cosimo reported orca tracebacks after I
> removed the gnome-speech dependency from our package - is that the
> same issue ?

Dunno. I'd have to see what the tracebacks are. 

ACSS is just a voice definition.
http://git.gnome.org/browse/orca/tree/src/orca/acss.py

> > 3. Bug 646288 - Orca needs to set and respond to the appropriate
> >   gsettings keys
> >   https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=646288
> >   This will cause Orca to shut itself off when the UAP screen
> >   reader off-switch is turned off as well as to change the
> >   appropriate gsettings key so that the aforementioned switch
> >   displays the right thing when users launch Orca via some other
> >   means. In addition, we caught a couple of instances where we
> >   were still checking/setting gconf keys. While this is a bigger
> >   change, it's not huge. And while it will not solve all the
> >   current accessibility issues, it will make them somewhat less
> >   pronounced. ;-)
> 
> I must say this one should have landed shortly after we added the
> switch back. But better late than never. I'm willing to accept this
> one, since it makes the switch work properly.

Understood. Apologies for that.

--joanie