GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 557009
Orca should provide access to Empathy
Last modified: 2010-09-20 10:52:00 UTC
As part of the GNOME-2.24 release, Empathy was introduced as a (the?) GNOME IM client. (See http://library.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/2.24/#rnusers.empathy) We need to write an Empathy script (similar to what we've done for Pidgin) and, in the process of doing so, identify all of the bugs which prevent us from providing compelling access.
Bug 545282 is seeing some action (in the form of a patch from Frederic Peters which solves the contact list issue). Yea! Assigning this bug to myself to investigate what else needs doing, write an Empathy script to speak chat messages, etc., etc. Retargeting for our next milestone in case we discover other issues/bugs which are out of our hands.
Pushing this out to FUTURE. We've got more important (high impact, low risk) bugs to work on.
There is now a script for Empathy in Orca git master which uses the newly-checked in generic chat support. There are a handful of bugs which I believe reside in Empathy itself: * table child count seems off by one * certain "themes" seem inaccessible * we don't get what we need to identify typing status) There also seem to be some potential usability issues in Empathy (like how do you know if a new chat conversation started in if you disabled the sound because it interferes with your speech synthesizer?) All these need to be identified and triaged. Having said that, all the critical features in Orca's chat support seem to be working quite nicely with Empathy. Yay! I'll leave this bug open as a temporary uber-bug/metabug in which to capture feedback and bug reports from the Orca community.
On Tue, 2010-04-27 at 09:10 -0400, Jacob Schmude wrote: > Hi all > I've discovered a slight issue with Orca's empathy support. IF you make > an audio or video call, Orca will read the timer every second as the > elapsed time is updated. It's not a huge deal, since I just alt-tab away > from the window, but thought I'd report it. Empathy is seriously > awesome, and with a reliable sip client I think I can finally put Skype > to bed and be rid of both it and Pidgin.
Fix for the aforementioned issue was committed to master: http://git.gnome.org/browse/orca/commit/?id=88e461d8b83172e389a365df7a4e1c9a90b90d5a
Regarding the typing status issue (and chat issues in general): I have just created an Chat metabug for Orca (bug 617039). I have just filed a bug against Empathy seeking the status be exposed to us (bug 617040).
The last issue for this bug was the incorrect child count. I have just committed a fix for that issue to master: http://git.gnome.org/browse/orca/commit/?id=5e4c1f29c1e6962a140d2a931eaeff56597171f7 Orca now provides access to Empathy. Therefore, closing this bug as FIXED. Please open new bugs should any issues be discovered.