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Announcing Orca v2.17.92

From:  Willie Walker <William.Walker-AT-Sun.COM>
To:  gnome-announce-list-AT-gnome.org
Subject:  Announcing Orca v2.17.92
Date:  Mon, 26 Feb 2007 18:01:29 -0500

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* What is Orca?
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Orca is a free, open source, flexible, and extensible screen reader that 
provides access to the graphical desktop via user-customizable 
combinations of speech, braille, and/or magnification.  Orca development 
has been led by the Sun Microsystems, Inc., Accessibility Program Office 
via continued engagement with its end users and contributions from 
wonderful community members.

You can also read more about Orca at http://live.gnome.org/Orca.

The Orca 2.17.x series are designated for the GNOME 2.17.x releases, but 
should also work well on the GNOME 2.16.x releases.

NOTE ON FIREFOX 3.0 SUPPORT: we know many of you are anxiously awaiting 
compelling access to the web via Orca and Firefox.  As of v2.17.92, the 
support is still under development and both the Orca and Firefox teams 
are working feverishly to get it there for Firefox 3.0.  We're getting 
there step by step.

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* What's changed for Orca v2.17.92?
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* Much more work on Gecko.py support for Firefox.  Firefox support
   still has a ways to go, both inside Firefox itself and inside Orca.

* Fix for bug 412058 to terminate the python process better when it
   receives a TERM signal.  Note that one must send the TERM signal
   directly to the Python process.  Sending it to the shell script
   won't do since the shell script turns around and does a kill -9 on
   the Python process when it gets a TERM signal.  The motivation for
   this is to better support the code coverage analysis work that is
   being done by Lynn Monsanto.
	
* Work on bug 354479 to announce what we can about changes to the
   battery status.  There are currently issues with the AT-SPI
   support from the Galago support used by gnome-panel that prevent
   us from doing a more effect job here.

* Fix for bug 407480 to prevent "orca --help" and other informative
   commands from killing other Orca processes that might be running.

* Fix for bug 409708 to remove unnecessary code from Thunderbird
   script now that a few Thunderbird bugs have been fixed.

* Fix for bug 405541 to better handle Thunderbird message summary
   list in braille.

* Fix for but 408174 to make laptop keybindings work better
   (Thanks to community member Juan Ramon Jimenez for this fix!!!).

* Fixed for bug 405624 so Orca will report a label even if it was
   same as previous one.

* New and updated translations (THANKS EVERYONE!!!):

     ar      Arabic               Khaled Hosny and Djihed Afifi
     bg      Bulgarian            Alexander Shopov
     en_GB   English/British      David Lodge
     fi      Finnish              Ilkka Tuohela
     fr      French               Jonathan Ernst and Stéphane Raimbault
     it      Italian              Luca Ferretti
     ko      Korean               Changwoo Ryu
     nb      Norwegian Bokmål     Kjartan Maraas and Sigurd Gartmann
     pl      Polish               Artur Flints and GNOME PL Team
     pt      Portuguese           Duarte Loreto
     sv      Swedish              Daniel Nylander
     zh_CN   Simplified Chinese   Funda Wang and Abel Cheung
     zh_HK   Traditional Chinese  Chao-Hsiung Liao and Woodman Tuen
     zh_TW   Traditional Chinese  Chao-Hsiung Liao and Woodman Tuen

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* Where can I get it?
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You can obtain Orca v2.17.92 in source code form at the following:

http://download.gnome.org/sources/orca/2.17/orca-2.17.92....
http://download.gnome.org/sources/orca/2.17/orca-2.17.92....

Enjoy!

The Orca Team
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