Re: Gnopernicus and gnome-mag issues

[Evan Yan <Evan Yan Sun COM>]

Hi Aurelian,

For your first question, I think the bug has been fixed in trunk.

Please see:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=317213

Regards,

Evan

Aurelian Radu wrote:

> Hello, dear list!
>  
> This is my first message here and I'm hoping that you can help me (or
> at least give me some hope for the future).
>  
> I'm visually-impaired and I cannot use a computer without a magnifier.
> That is one of the things that are keeping me on Windows. I use the
> magnifier that comes with Windows, not ZoomText or other commercial
> software. The basic Windows magnifier has all the features I need: I
> can dock it to the bottom edge of the screen (I'm not comfortable with
> full-screen magnification), I set the magnification factor to 9x, it
> runs very well, it follows mouse movement very smoothly, it follows
> text-editing (except in OpenOffice and in some parts of Firefox, and
> some other apps), and it is low on RAM and CPU resources.
>  
> I've tried several Linux distros (from Mandrake 10.1 with GNOME 2.10
> and KDE 3.2, to Ubuntu Dapper with GNOME 2.14 and KDE 3.5.2), but
> magnification seems to have improved very little.
>  
> Kmag runs fairly smoothly and the newest version can be docked to one
> of the screen edges, but it doesn't follow text-editing. That means I
> have to move the mouse in order to bring the focus to where I'm writing.
>  
> Gnopernicus + gnome-mag follows text-editing fairly well in apps like
> gedit and gnome-terminal (even in gnomeradio!), but not in OpenOffice
> and Firefox. OOo 2.0.2 seems to have made a step forward: OOo Writer
> does get some focus, but not as it should. When you write somethin,
> focus goes to the middle of the line, not to where the cursor is.
>  
> In Firefox, whenever I write something, focus jumps to the upper-left
> corner of the screen. This bug has been around ever since I tried
> Linux 10 months ago, but it hasn't been fixed in Firefox or in any of
> the Linux distros.
>  
> Another problem is that gnopernicus/gnome-mag displays magnified areas
> poorly. The movement is choppy and the magnified image is full of
> black "patches" and portions of previously closed windows. This
> problem does not exist in kmag.
>
> These are some of the issues I have encountered with
> gnopernicus/gnome-mag Any help will be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thank you for taking the time to read this.
>
> Aurelian Radu
>
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