Re: Proposed Orca Migration

[Shaun McCance <shaunm gnome org>]

On Wed, 2006-07-26 at 05:26 -0400, Willie Walker wrote:
> Hi All:
> 
> In the spirit of keeping the Orca migration decoupled from the
> accessibility properties dialog redesign, Bill Haneman has created
> patches for control-center and gnome-session:
> 
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=348630 (control-center)
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=348643 (gnome-session)
> 
> The first patch (control-center) gives preference to using 'orca' for
> the exec_ats property if screen reading or magnification is desired, but
> will fallback to 'gnopernicus' if 'orca' is not present on the machine.
> 
> The second patch (gnome-session) will fallback to 'orca' if the exec_ats
> prefs has specified 'gnopernicus' but 'gnopernicus' is not present on
> the machine.
> 
> These seem to address Shaun's migration concerns as well as Matthias'
> FC6 concerns.
> 
> I'll be happy to work with the control-center and gnome-session
> maintainers to roll these patches in for GNOME 2.16.
> 
> Comments?

I have only one concern with this proposal, and note that none
of my previous proposals addressed this issue very well either.
If I'm running different versions of Gnome off the same home
directory, and I turn on the screen reader in the 2.16 desktop,
my 2.14 desktop won't be able to launch the screen reader.

Situations like this are why it's nice to categorize the tools.
It makes it easier to write forwards-compatible code.  Not that
we could change past release now anyway.

--
Shaun