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Bug 736595 - Orca's new layout mode setting should be configurable via GUI
Orca's new layout mode setting should be configurable via GUI
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: orca
Classification: Applications
Component: general
3.13.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Orca Maintainers
Orca Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2014-09-12 22:10 UTC by Joanmarie Diggs (IRC: joanie)
Modified: 2014-09-13 10:44 UTC
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Description Joanmarie Diggs (IRC: joanie) 2014-09-12 22:10:57 UTC 
Orca now has support for the one-object-per-line style of navigation of web content typically found in Windows screen readers -- and regularly asked about by new users of GNU/Linux who are blind. This support is configurable via a setting.

Because most existing Orca users do not like the one-object-per-line style of navigation, the default value of this setting is to use "layout mode" rather than "object mode." However, the users who want to disable "layout mode" in favor of "object mode" are typically ill-equipped to locate and hand-edit config files they know nothing about. Thus we need to have a GUI option.
Comment 1 Joanmarie Diggs (IRC: joanie) 2014-09-12 22:12:51 UTC 
Fix committed to master: https://git.gnome.org/browse/orca/commit/?id=e0412c9

I need permission to commit it to the gnome-3-14 branch.
Comment 2 Joanmarie Diggs (IRC: joanie) 2014-09-13 10:44:45 UTC 
The i18n team gave me their approval. In order to make it possible for the translators to proceed, I've committed the change to the 3.14 branch [1].

There's a chance that the release team might object since technically this a GUI change. But given that the GUI is hidden and requires a special Orca command to make it appear, and given that I write Orca's docs, I'm going to assume they will not object. If I am wrong, I can always comment out the lines which actually make the option configurable via the GUI.

[1] https://git.gnome.org/browse/orca/commit/?h=gnome-3-14&id=27e9cf21