2.28.1 - 19-Oct-2009
General:
* Fix for bgo#596257 - Generator arguments are not passed along with
_generateImage()
* Fix for bgo#596340 - Exception if no selection is given when
choosing a language
* Fix for bgo#596364 - Create a script for the OpenSolaris Device
Driver Utility
* Fix for bgo#596384 - Orca sometimes fails to speak a newly-focused
table in certain OpenSolaris utilities
* Fix for bgo#598797 - Gnome-Terminal and VTE dump core when using Orca
Firefox/Thunderbird:
* Fix for bgo#592634 - The Gecko script's handling of caret navigation
interferes when navigating editable messages in Thunderbird
* Fix for bgo#593520 - The Gecko script's getBottomOfFile needs to be
more efficient
* Fix for bgo#593594 - Orca says "blank" when Firefox returns a bogus
value for getTextAtOffset
* Fix for bgo#593596 - When the user Up Arrows to a line in Firefox
which begins with a nested paragraph, Orca fails to present that
line
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
da Danish Kenneth Nielsen
de German Simon Bienlein
el Greek Jennie Petoumenou
it Italian Luca Ferretti
ru Russian Leonid Kanter
==========
2.28.0 - 21-Sep-2009
General:
* Fix for bgo#595117 - Need to customize the presentation of the
packagemanager package list toggle
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
bg Bulgarian Alexander Shopov
ca Catalan Gil Forcada
ca@valencia Catalan (Valencian) Carles Ferrando
cs Czech Lucas Lommer and Petr Kovar
da Danish Kenneth Nielsen
de German Chrisitan Kirback
and Mario Blättermann
and Simon Bienlein
en_GB British English Bruce Cowan
es Spanish Jorge González
fi Finnish Ilkka Tuohela
gl Galician Antón Méixome
ml Malayalam Ani Peter
nb Norwegian Bokmål Kjartan Maraas
pl Polish Tomasz Dominikowski
and Piotr Leszczyński
ro Romanian Adi Roiban
sl Slovenian Matej Urbančič
uk Ukranian Maxim Dziumanenko
zh_HK Traditional Chinese Chao-Hsiung Liao
zh_TW Traditional Chinese Chao-Hsiung Liao
==========
2.27.92 - 06-Sep-2009
General:
* Fix for bgo#594022 - cannot launch orca preferences - GError:
Duplicate object id
* Rename X-FullName to X-GNOME-FullName in desktop file
StarOffice/OpenOffice:
* Fix for bgo#592917 - Orca doesn't present OOo Writer's Style combo
box correctly
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
eu Basque Iñaki Larrañaga Murgoitio
fr French Laurent Coudeur and Claude Paroz
nb Norwegian Bokmål Kjartan Maraas
pt Portuguese Rui Batista and Duarte Loreto
pt_BR Brazilian Portuguese Og B. Maciel and Marco de Freitas
ta Tamil I. Felix
==========
2.27.91 - 24-Aug-2009
General:
* Fix for bgo#591282 - add a switch to activate debug when executing
orca
* Fix for bgo#591289 - Need to remove duplicate speechTabLabel from
orca-setup.ui
* Fix for bgo#591382 - Need to add "word_char" to
text_attribute_names.py for localization
* Fix for bgo#591729 - Using cursor routing keys when the caret
is panned off the display can cause cursor to jump
* Fix for bgo#591734 - "No break space" character not spoken
* Fix for bgo#591805 - Orca speaks the "restrict progress bar update
to" label when the app preferences dialog loads
* Fix for bgo#591907 - "All" hard to translate
* Fix for bgo#592517 - Cursor position based upon uncontracted text
when typing text and contracted braille is enabled
* Fix for bgo#592741 - Fix .desktop file to meet GNOME goal
OpenOffice/StarOffice:
* Fix for bgo#356060 - Provide access to tree item level and state in
OOo Navigator
* Fix for bgo#590682 - Orca does not always speak the Paths table of
the OOo Options dialog correctly
* Fix for bgo#592138 - Orca speaks the next character rather than the
next word when a paragraph boundary is crossed in Writer
Evolution:
* Fix for bgo#592708 - Orca should attempt to recognize Evo's Setup
Assistant and present the (non-focused) prompts
Firefox/Thunderbird:
* Fix for bgo#577899 - Strange cursor movements in Firefox
* Fix for bgo#584103 - Cursor problems when I compose a new message
with Thunderbird 3.0B3 pre
* Fix for bgo#591336 - Need a sanity check in Gecko's
searchForCaretLocation
* Fix for bgo#591351 - SayAll document function doesn't work correctly
on some webpages
* Fix for bgo#591592 - Orca does not speak and braille the appropriate
information when moving by headings on all sites
* Fix for bgo#591807 - Orca sometimes presents the previous line when
Home/End is pressed in Gecko
* Fix for bgo#591860 - Orca grinds to a halt when Ctrl+End is pressed
in a really long message in Thunderbird
* Fix for bgo#592383 - Orca gets stuck when it encounters a paragraph
in Firefox which begins with a multi-line-high character
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
bg Bulgarian Alexander Shopov
de German Christian Kirbach and Simon Bienlein
es Spanish Francisco Javier Dorado Martinez
fr French Claude Paroz
ga Irish Seán de Búrca
gl Galician Antón Méixome
gu Gujarati Ankit Patel and Sweta Kothari
he Hebrew Mark Krapivner
hu Hungarian Attila Hammer and Gabor Kelemen
pt Portuguese Rui Batista
pt_BR Brazilian Portuguese Leonardo Ferreira Fontenelle
sv Swedish Daniel Nylander
==========
2.27.90 - 09-Aug-2009
General:
* Fix for bgo#480883 - User can pan right in braille indefinitely at
the end of a web page
* Fix for bgo#523693 - Positioning of the cursor when editing text
This fixes a 'jumping cursor' problem when deleting text in the
middle of a long text area and also adds a _realignViewport method
to braille.py. The method works off new settings (you need to
hand-edit your ~/.orca/user-settings.py or ~/.orca/orca-customizations.py
file for now):
ALIGN_BRAILLE_BY_EDGE = 0
ALIGN_BRAILLE_BY_MARGIN = 1
ALIGN_BRAILLE_BY_WORD = 2
brailleAlignmentMargin = 3
brailleMaximumJump = 8
brailleAlignmentStyle = ALIGN_BRAILLE_BY_EDGE
The default alignment style matches what we have today.
The ALIGN_BRAILLE_BY_MARGIN style uses brailleAlignmentMargin and is
effectively a "push" model - when you get to the edge of the
display, the viewport is pushed to keep the cursor cell at the
margin (until you reach the edge of the text).
The ALIGN_BRAILLE_BY_WORD style uses brailleAlignmentMargin in the
same push model above, but when it pushes the viewport, it pushes it
so the edge lands on a word boundary. In the event we hit a really
long word, the brailleMaximumJump setting limits how far we jump.
* Fix for bgo#570070 - Remove 'item' from spoken string that
represents position/index information
* Fix for bgo#574344 - Support for different progress bar "verbosity
levels" should be implemented
* Fix for bgo#576847 - Add ability to 'flash' braille messages
This adds a 'flashTime' parameter to the braille.displayMessage and
braille.displayRegions methods. If it is 0, the message will not be
flashed. If it is greater than 0, the current message on the display
will be saved and the new message will be flashed for flashTime
milliseconds. If it is less than 0, the current message on the display
will be saved and the new message will be shown until some other action,
such as a keypress or cursor routing key press, causes the display to
revert back to the original message.
* Fix for bgo#578832 - Flash locking modifier key state in braille
This flashes a message for the Caps Lock modifier if the "Enable
locking keys" checkbox is checked on the "Key Echo" tab in the Orca
preferences UI. The flash time is settable via the
'brailleFlashTime' setting which represents the number of
milliseconds to flash a message.
* Fix for bgo#582318 - Pressing panning buttons on the braille display
should not interrupt speech
* Fix for bgo#582491 - Strange message table behavior with Evolution
* Fix for bgo#589610 - isupper should be used on unicode and not UTF-8
strings
* Fix for bgo#590219 - Incorrect text displayed with Orca quit
confirmation dialog when the user using non english locale
* Fix for bgo#590378 - configure.in and orca.spec.in need updating for
compile and runtime dependencies.
* Fix for bgo#590382 - Orca should have a script for packagemanager
OpenOffice/StarOffice:
* Fix for bgo#363820 - Orca should inform the user when text in given
cell in Calc is too wide for that column
Thunderbird:
* Fix for bgo#590267 - Thunderbird's rendering of smileys as named
paragraphs without accessible text causes Orca to speak the tutorial
message inappropriately
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
bn Bengali Maruf Ovee and Jamil Ahmed
es Spanish Francisco Javier Dorado Martínez
hu Hungarian Attila Hammer and Gabor Kelemen
==========
2.27.5 - 27-Jul-2009
General:
* Migrated to GtkBuilder (bgo#582506 and bgo#589362)
* Fix for bgo#434600 – cursor routing keys cannot be used to position
caret at end of line
* Re-fix for bgo#568696 - locus of focus changes when updating list of
files in nautilus
* Work on bgo#575784 - accented characters are not echoed correctly.
Orca now has two new checkboxes on the "Key Echo" tab of the
preferences UI. The first, "Enable non-spacing diacritical keys",
specifies whether dead keys are echoed or not. The second, "Enable
echo by character", specifies if the exact character typed in an
editable text area is to be spoken. This differs from the "Enable
alphanumeric and punctuation keys" setting in that it echos the
characters that are typed vs. the keys that were pressed. If both
are enabled, preference is given to character echo where it applies.
* Fix for bgo#578106 - Gtk Warning on starting Orca Preferences GUI
* Fix for bgo#585049 - When I select paragraphs with Ctrl+Shift+Down
key combination, Orca says incorrect information message
* Fix for bgo#585417 - Allow pauses to be inserted in speech output
* Fix for bgo#585948 - Automatic position index spoken request. Orca
now has a "Speak child position" on the "Speech" tab in the
preferences UI. When selected, Orca will speak the child position
(e.g., 'item 6 of 7') of various objects.
* Fix for bgo#588471 - Orca's clicking functionality should click on
the locusOfFocus when not in flat review
* Fix for bgo#588774 - Tooltips aren't always presented
* Fix for bgo#589244 - Remove libgail-gnome usage, use gail in gtk+
instead
* Fix for bgo#589497 - orca shouldn't speak entering / leaving flat
review mode when verbosity is set to brief
* Fix for bgo#589504 - Orca double speaks typed characters when input
method is enabled
Firefox:
* Fix for bgo#480883 - Braille navigation on Webpages. The pan left
and pan right buttons on the braille display should now allow you to
scroll through the page content in linear order.
* Fix for bgo#586399 - Orca should provide support/access to "Mouse
Overs" in web content. See the following message for a complete
description:
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/orca-list/2009-July/msg00186.html.
* Fix for bgo#588910 - Orca should support the spellcheck as you go in
mozilla applications
* Fix for bgo#589455 - Can not activate links with structural
navigation keys
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
es Spanish Francisco Javier Dorado Martinez
fr French Claude Paroz
==========
2.27.4 - 13-Jul-2009
General:
* Fix for doo#9676 - Orca fails to launch. Make sure setting the PATH
follows sh syntax and not bash.
* Latent work for bgo#400729 - Orca should provide support for general
audio. This adds some latent support for audio that gives people
something to experiment with as soon as bgo#570658 is done.
* Fix for bgo#561452 - Factor out included "louis" C extension. This
now requires liblouis 1.6.2 and the liblouis 1.6.2 "louis" python
module in order for contracted braille to work with Orca. See
http://live.gnome.org/Orca/Braille for more information.
* Fix for bgo#568696 - locus of focus changes when updating list of
files in nautilus.
* Much more work on bgo#570658 - Refactor the speech and braille
generators. This refactor is almost complete. After a pass to
simplify and consolidate the formatting strings, we should be ready
to document how you can customize Orca presentation for yourself.
* More work on bgo#575614 - Please add speakable characters: → and ←.
* Fix for bgo#583199 - orca should not hang itself, or the desktop
when brltty is killed. This fix allows BrlTTY to be killed,
restarted, started before Orca, started after Orca, etc. This
requires a fix in BrlTTY that will appear in a to-be-released
version of BrlTTY (i.e., the fix is not in BrlTTY 4.0). Note that
this change has caused us to change the default value of
settings.enableBraille to False to prevent speech-only users from
incurring unnecessary overhead.
* Fix for bgo#584796 - Invoking the application specific preferences
for Orca when in the Orca Quit dialog freezes speech.
* Fix for bgo#585103 - Inconsistent behavior of flat review.
* Provisional work on bgo#585417 - Allow pauses to be inserted in
speech output. This provides code that will modify the speech
formatting strings if orca.settings.useExperimentalSpeechProsody is
True (the default value is True for this release). This allows
users to experiment with the prosody work Hammer Attila has done
before we finally commit to it.
NOTE: to indicate things are still experimental, informational
messages will be included on the command line where you run Orca.
These informational messages say that pauses have been added to the
formatting strings. When the integration is done, these messages
will be removed.
* Fix for bgo#585897 - Pronunciation substitution can miss words due
to word delimiters
* Fix for bgo#586385 - When I using where am I function with
Openoffice.org Calc, the spoken row and column information are not
marked for translation.
* Fix for bgo#586580 - Orca repeats the coordinates of Calc cells.
* Fix for bgo#588403 - Implement ability to route the mouse pointer
without clicking. This implements support for routing the pointer to
the current location (either the area under flat review or the
locusOfFocus).
* Fix for crash (no bug number) - Prevent stack trace when contracted
braille is being used. The trace would also kill speech.
OpenOffice/StarOffice:
* Fix for bug #583811 - Doing a select all in OOo Writer causes Orca
to say "selected" for each paragraph.
Thunderbird:
* Fix for bgo#584263 - When I compose or reply to a message with
Thunderbird, the Ctrl+End key combination does not work.
* Fix for bgo#584837 - Find dialog fails to move caret to desired
location in Thunderbird.
* Fix for bgo#568658 - Sometimes Orca announces the wrong subject in
Thunderbird.
Firefox:
* Fix for bgo#584540 - Orca should not duplicate images and lines of
text on facebook
* Fix for bgo#585871 - WhereAmI info in FF doesn't include link
text.
* Fix for bgo#587794 - In some pages I cannot read using the Down
Arrow key.
* Fix for bgo#588344 - Missed text on a page in Firefox.
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
cs Czech Lucas Lommer
es Spanish Francisco Javier Dorado Martinez and
Jorge Gonzalez
hu Hungarian Attila Hammer and Gabor Kelemen
uk Ukranian Maxim Dziumanenko
==========
2.27.3 - 15-Jun-2009
General:
* We no longer manually update the ChangeLog each time we commit a
change. Instead, the ChangeLog will be automatically generated from
the git logs when we create a new release. If you pull from git,
you can use 'git log' for a detailed list of changes.
* Much work on bgo#570658 - Refactor the speech and braille
generators. This represents a HUGE REFACTOR for Orca. The speech
generators have been completely rewritten to use formatting strings,
and they are now used by the focus tracking and where am I code.
This has simplified the code base a lot, increased performance in
some areas, and has fixed a number of latent bugs. It also enables
finer granularity for switching voices and helps set us up for
incorporating audio cues. Please help us by testing with the latest
code and by reporting issues and suggestions at orca-list@gnome.org.
* Fix for bgo#583274 - portability for orca script (Thomas Klausner)
* Fix for bgo#585017 - Orca should speak the toggled state of flat
review mode
* Fix for bgo#585792 - i18n strings should use parameterized forms
OpenOffice:
* Significant progress on bgo#574720 - Table Navigation Keys for
OpenOffice Writer. Structural navigation can be enabled/disabled in
OOo with Orca+Z. It is disabled by default in OOo because, unlike in
Gecko, odds are that you'll want to type. :-) Mind you right now we
don't have structural navigation by headings, etc. in Writer. But
one day we will. Alt + the arrows move by cell, Alt + Home/End move
to the beginning/ending of the table respectively.
* Fix for bug #583414 - Orca should announce when is at last cell on
a table in OOo.
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
See also the overall translation status:
http://l10n.gnome.org/module/orca
es Spanish Francisco Javier Dorado Martinez
sv Swedish Daniel Nylander
ta Tamil drtvasudevan
==========
2.27.2 - 25-May-2009
General:
* Work on bug #354471 - Text selection from braille input device.
This is the first step of implementing this feature. Here's the
behavior:
KEY_CMD_CUTBEGIN (Dot 1 + cursor routing key on my display) -
this will specify the start of a selection. Orca will merely
move the caret to the given spot and will clear any existing
selection.
KEY_CMD_CUTLINE (Dot 4 + cursor routing key on my display) -
this will specify the end of a selection and the selected text
is automatically copied to the system clipboard. If a selection
doesn't exist, Orca creates a new one where the other endpoint
of the selection is where the caret is. If a selection exists
and the selection point is outside the existing selection, Orca
extends the existing one. If a selection exists and the
selection point is inside the existing selection, Orca trims the
selection from the right (i.e., the selected text that's after
the selection point becomes unselected).
Known issues that need to be resolved:
1) This only works in text areas. It doesn't work across things
such as paragraphs in OpenOffice.
2) There's some strangeness with speech feedback: it sometimes
says "unselected" when the text is selected. This should be
fixable, but there also probably shouldn't be any speech
feedback when doing this from the braille display.
* Fix for bug #466841 - Orca doesn't announce items when Alt+Tabbing
if Compiz is enabled. This fix is designed to improve Orca's access
to the basic window switcher in Compiz. There are still bugs in
Compiz which make providing compelling access difficult, but this
should at least make switching windows accessible.
* Fix for bug #511468 - Ekiga chat window accessibility problem.
* Fix for bug #574221 - left-pane in Ekiga's preference box can't be
read at start-up.
* Fix for bug #575614 - Please add speakable characters: → and ←.
* Fix for bug #577977 - provide speech feedback for "repeat last find"
in Gedit.
* Fix for bug #581372 - Move cursor routing and six dot key handling
from braille.py to script. With the cleanup from bug #581532 to
remove the custom brl module and move directly to the brlapi module
provided by BrlTTY/BrlAPI, we are now able to handle BrlAPI commands
much better. This patch 'uncovers' the handling the cursor routing
keys and the six dot keys; they are no longer swallowed/handled by
the braille.py module alone. Instead, they go to the script like
any other event. By default, the script just turns around and calls
braille.py methods, but it can also feel free to override them. For
example, it might look at keyboard modifiers along with a cursor
routing key to see if it wants to select text or not.
As a note, the BrlAPI events come to us as a dictionary containing a
bunch of information about the event. For example, the cursor
routing command contains information about which routing key was
pressed. The six dots command, which is used to turn contracted
braille on or off, contains information about whether the user wants
to turn contracted braille on (dots 2-3-5 on my Baum display) or off
(dots 2-3-6 on my Baum display). Right now, expressing interest in
braille events is still done by the command (e.g.,
brlapi.KEY_CMD_HOME, brlapi.KEY_CMD_ROUTE, brlapi.KEY_CMD_SIXDOTS)
and it is up to the event handler to determine how to handle the
arguments.
* Fix for bug #581532 - Remove brl module. Orca now uses the BrlAPI
python bindings.
* Fix for bug #582028 - Character pronunciations are not used when
navigating by line. This provides a fallback to the chnames
dictionary.
* Fix for bug #582684 - Arrowing left/right across tree tables causes
whole row to be spoken.
OpenOffice:
* Work on bug #574720 - Table Navigation Keys for OpenOffice Writer.
This adds in support for Alt + the cursoring keys for navigation in
OOo tables. Note that you will need to first enable structural by
pressing Orca + Z. We plan to add in the customizations/settings
available in the Gecko preferences, as well as for the announcement
of dynamic row and column headers when navigating.
Firefox:
* Fix for bug #530784 - whereAmI info for list items in web content
needs to be improved.
* Fix for bug #577900 - Blank lines in Firefox text areas incorrectly
spoken.
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
See also the overall translation status:
http://l10n.gnome.org/module/orca
hu Hungarian Attila Hammer and Gabor Kelemen
ta Tamil drtvasudevan
==========
2.27.1 - 04-May-2009
General:
* Much work to handle the transition from subversion to git.
(Willie Walker, Olav Vitters, Mesar Hameed)
* Updated script writer's guide -- the document lives in
docs/doc-set/internals.html. (Willie Walker)
* Add setting to disable the pyatspi GIL idle handler:
useGILIdleHandler. This change is made in response to
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=576954 where it appears as
though the GIL idle handler in pyatspi is causing consumers of
pyatspi (e.g., Orca and accerciser) to start consuming 100% of a CPU
when the machine is idle. We're pretty sure the GIL handler is not
necessary, so this change gets rid of it for the 2.27.1 development
build of Orca. If we see that users notice strange lock ups,
however, we may need to change things back. (Willie Walker)
* Adjust debug utilities to print to console and debug log.
(Willie Walker)
* Fix for bug #579052 - Orca should be able to run with AT-SPI/D-Bus.
(Willie Walker)
* Fix for bug #573535 - Orca should use the 16x16 pixels application
icon for Main and Preferences windows. (Stephen Brandt)
* Fix for bug #575921 - When I working with the gcalctool application,
Orca says too lot of the result of the mathematic operations.
(Willie Walker)
* Fix for bug #576037 - Bind F1 key to help page. (Willie Walker)
* Fix for bug #576438 - Provide state change information for radio
buttons that require you to press space to select them.
(Willie Walker)
* Fix for bug #577239 - Cannot navigate by line through multi-line HTML
list items in Firefox/Thunderbird when arrowToLineBeginning is
False. (Joanmarie Diggs)
* Fix for bug #577330 - Detect whether speech dispatcher is installed
or not. (Tomas Cerha)
* Fix for bug #577977 - provide speech feedback for "repeat last find"
in Gedit. (Nolan Darilek)
* Fix for bug #577979 - Pressing Down Arrow from the middle of a
multi-line HTML list item initially moves to the beginning of the
line when arrowToLineBeginning is False. (Joanmarie Diggs)
* Fix for bug #580423 - Remove deprecated libgnomeui dependency. Use
DBus org.gnome.SessionManager.Logout instead of
gnome.ui.master_client().request_save. (Willie Walker)
* Fix for bug #580329 - Use show_uri() to display help window.
(Vincent Legoll)
OpenOffice:
* Fix for bug #577245 - Present paragraph-style information in
OpenOffice. (Willie Walker)
* Fix for bug #578072 - Orca does not always present text attributes
in braille in OOo documents. (Joanmarie Diggs)
New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):
See also the overall translation status:
http://l10n.gnome.org/module/orca
bg Bulgarian Alexander Shopov
ca Catalan Jordi Mas i Hernandez
uk Ukranian Maxim Dziumanenko
zh_CN Simplified Chinese Aron Xu
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