1 What's new in at-spi-1.17.2:
5 What's new in at-spi-1.17.1:
7 * Bugfixes: #404584, #401299, #375319. Fixes some build warnings.
9 What's new in at-spi-1.17.0:
11 * Bugfixes: #404592, #400709.
13 What's new in at-spi-1.7.16:
15 * Bugfixes: #329454, #393010.
17 What's new in at-spi-1.7.15:
19 * Bugfixes: #372988, #381670, #387960, #364839.
21 What's new in at-spi-1.7.14:
23 * We now get te value of display using the env var DISPLAY rather than
24 using the gdk_display_get_default to avoid dependancy of gdk. Also,
25 once the registry is started, we set the ior of the registry as
28 * Bugfixes: #361386, #369377, #382271, #372172, #163132, #377079, #352444
30 What's new in at-spi-1.7.12:
32 * Modified parameter names in some IDL to avoid class name collisions
33 (Gary Cramblitt). This is a bincompat change which improves portability
36 * Bugfixes: #353226, #356688 (Neo Liu), #350552 (Ginn Chen), #350958.
38 What's new in at-spi-1.7.11:
42 * Fixed getAttributes APIs.
44 * Export Hyperlink interface for AtkHyperlinkImpl peers.
46 * Aggregate Document interface.
48 What's new in at-spi-1.7.10:
50 * New method Selection::deselectChild. RFE #326535.
52 What's new in at-spi-1.7.9:
54 * I18n uses po/LINGUAS now.
56 * Table enhancement: new method Table::getRowColumnExtentsAtIndex
57 RFE #326536. Assistance from Ariel Rios.
59 * Text enhancement: Text::getAttributeRun, Text::getDefaultAttributeSet
60 RFE #326540. Assistance from Ariel Rios.
62 * New interface, Document. RFE #326520.
64 * New roles, LINK, REDUNDANT_OBJECT, INPUT_METHOD_WINDOW, FORM.
66 * Meaningful implementation and bridges for StreamableContent.
69 * Added STATE_VISITED, and relations DESCRIBED_BY, DESCRIPTION_FOR,
72 What's new in at-spi-1.7.4:
74 * Fixed dist to include Accessibility_Selector.idl (missing from dist though
77 * Bugfixes to EventDetails event support, and fixed event emission for
78 implementors of SPI_REMOTE_OBJECT.
80 What's new in at-spi-1.7.0 through 1.7.3:
82 * Added idl/Accessibility_Selector.idl to the repository (missing in 1.7.0
83 through 1.7.2, added in 1.7.3)
87 All the IDL is now documented with doxygen-compatible docs.
88 Just run 'doxygen oxyfile' in the IDL directory. (This will
89 be automated in a future version).
94 Accessibility::Accessible:getAttributes (name/value pair annotation
96 Accessibility::Accessible:getApplication (retrieves ref to host app)
97 Accessibility::Component:getAlpha (get transparency/opacity value of component)
98 Accessibility::Image:getLocale (get POSIX locale for image and
100 Accessibility::Text:getAttributeValue (retrieve a single named
102 Accessibility::Relation:RELATION_PARENT_WINDOW_OF
103 Accessibility::Role:ROLE_ENTRY, ROLE_CHART, ROLE_CAPTION,
104 ROLE_DOCUMENT_FRAME, ROLE_HEADING, ROLE_PAGE, ROLE_SECTION (New roles
105 for complex docs and forms.)
106 Accessibility::State:STATE_REQUIRED, STATE_TRUNCATED, STATE_ANIMATED,
107 STATE_INVALID_ENTRY, STATE_SUPPORTS_AUTOCOMPLETION,
108 STATE_SELECTABLE_TEXT, STATE_IS_DEFAULT (New states, for complex forms)
109 Accessibility::EventDetails (new, more detailed info marshalled with events)
112 (AccessibleEvent_getSourceName):
113 (AccessibleEvent_getSourceRole):
114 (AccessibleEvent_getSourceApplication):
115 (AccessibleEvent_getSourceDetails):
116 New methods for interrogating/demarshalling
117 event details i.e. source's accessible name, role,
119 (Accessible_getAttributes): New, retrieve annotations/attributes
121 (Accessible_getHostApplication): New, retrieve enclosing Application
122 instance for an object.
123 (AccessibleImage_getImageLocale): New, retrieve Locale info for an
125 (AccessibleComponent_getAlpha): New, retrieve alpha value for
126 an AccessibleComponent (see discussion in idl section above).
129 Some compiler fixes from Kjartan Marass.
130 Some thread-related fixes from Michael Meeks.
131 Don't allow non-preemptive listeners to pre-empt events! (Bill Haneman).
133 What's new in at-spi-1.6.5:
135 * Fixed some discrepancies in event listener deregistration, improves
136 on-the-fly deregistration of event listeners. Fixed some tests.
138 * Fixed brokenness in 'make check.'
140 What's new in at-spi-1.6.4:
142 * Fixed XEVIE detection and configuration on XOrg version 6.8.2.
144 * Added locale 'rw' (Steve Murphy)
146 * Tweaked event-listener-test program.
148 * Leakfixes, from billh and Kjartan Marass.
150 What's new in at-spi-1.6.3:
154 * Added locale 'xh' (Adi Attar)
156 What's new in at-spi-1.6.2:
158 * fixes for problems at logout time (hangs, crashes)
160 * bugfixes for #160862, #152147.
162 * minor enhancements to test login-helper-server-test.
166 What's new in at-spi-1.6.1:
168 * LoginHelper API docs improved.
170 * fixed bug which caused problems if an
171 app which loaded atk-bridge forks, and one fork exits.
174 * New language: Galician (gl), Jesus Bravo Alvarez.
176 * Ansi build fixes (Kjartan Maraas).
178 What's new in at-spi-1.6.0:
182 What's new in at-spi-1.5.4:
184 * Registration failure at SPI_init is now detected and
185 an error code is returned to the caller (bug #147648).
187 * We now use polling as our default for detecting mouse
188 button changes (this was formerly our fallback method);
189 this prevents conflict with Xstroke.
190 [a better long-term fix requires the Xevie extension]
192 * We now register on a per-DISPLAY, but not per-SCREEN, basis.
193 This fixes several issues, see bugs #149962, #136986, #144086.
195 * New languages in configure.in:
201 What's new in at-spi-1.5.3:
203 * New role EMBEDDED (bug #144415).
205 * Added object:bounds-changed event, for detecting when the
206 component bounds of an object have changed onscreen.
210 What's new in at-spi-1.5.2:
212 * Added Accessibility_LoginHelper interface, and
213 LoginHelper GType. Also added client and server tests
214 for this interface. The purpose is to identify services
215 (typically, assistive technologies) which need access to
216 system or device services (keyboard, audio, serial ports,
217 posting windows, etc.) during login or re-login/authentication.
219 * fixed make distcheck.
221 * Added a check in cspi_object_unref, which should help in detecting
222 refcount bugs in clients (Padraig O'Briain).
225 Walloon (Pablo Saratxaga)
226 Bulgarian (Alexander Shopov)
228 What's new in at-spi-1.5.1:
230 * Allow synthesis of keysyms that aren't in the current X keymap.
232 * languages: Gujarati (Guntupalli Karunakar), Canadian English
235 * Added omitted declarations for already-existing methods
236 AccessibleTable_addRowSelection(),
237 AccessibleTable_addColumnSelection(),
238 AccessibleTable_removeRowSelection(),
239 AccessibleTable_removeColumnSelection().
241 * bug fixes: 136660, 120659 (partial), 132237, 134332.
245 What's new in at-spi-1.4.0: [GNOME 2.6.0 release]
247 * build improvements from Laszlo Peter.
248 * en_GB added to ALL_LINGUAS.
252 What's new in at-spi-1.3.16: [GNOME 2.6 RC1 release]
254 * Fix for bug #134036, which could steal keystrokes from applications
255 if at-spi registry failed.
257 * Build fixes, added .pc.in files (from Laszlo Peter).
261 This is the gnome-2.6 beta release of at-spi.
262 What's new in at-spi-1.3.15:
265 Amanpreet Singh Alam (pa)
269 What's new in at-spi-1.3.14:
271 * reduced debug output in normal usage. Don't PRIT_LEAKS
272 unless DEBUG_OBJECTS is #defined. Reduces SEGVs when reporting
273 on noncritical refcount issues.
275 What's new in at-spi-1.3.13:
277 * Build improvements: Requires automake-1.7, and calls GTK_DOC_CHECK.
278 (Padraig O'Briain, Matthias Clasen, some from Tomas Kloczko)
280 * bugfixes (bad g_free, and a null string issue that caused SEGV on
281 Solaris when running sample programs).
284 What's new in at-spi-1.3.11:
286 * Fix for docs bug #129728 (Sebastien Bacher).
288 * Fix for bug #129479, allows distinction between
289 multiple DISPLAY instances of at-spi registry.
291 * Fix for #124837, which could cause 'hang' interactions
292 between desktop and clients such as gnopernicus.
294 * Fixes for NUMLOCK mask behavior, bug #129103.
296 * Greatly improved key synthesis for non-Latin characters.
297 We can now synthesize any KeySym which is defined in the current
298 X keymap. (bug #128824). Thanks to Marcus G Kuhn for
299 the public-domain code borrowed here.
304 fa (Roozber Pournader),
306 id (Ahmad Riza H Nst)
309 What's new in at-spi-1.3.9:
311 * New api: AccessibleApplication_getLocale (app, type),
312 returns a POSIX locale string for a locale category,
313 for instance Accessibility_LOCALE_TYPE_MESSAGES.
315 * New SPI_ROLE_EDITBAR.
317 * New Accessible_getLocalizedRoleName.
319 * New AccessibleText_getDefaultAttributes.
321 * fixes to AccessibleStreamableContent, including a 'seek'
322 implementation for cspi. Thanks to Michael Meeks for some
323 related bugfixes in StreamableContent.
325 * now we emit key-released events to appropriate keylisteners.
327 * new LINGUAS in configure.in: nn (Asmund Sjeveland), lt (Gediminas Paulauskas),
328 no (Kjartan Masass), eu (Christian Rose).
330 * bugfixes for: #120991, #120473, #118581, #127463, #116009, #114926,
331 #125834, #111429, #121974.
333 What's new in at-spi-1.3.7:
335 This is the official GNOME 2.4.0 release of at-spi.
337 * fixed event-name bug, "object:active-descendant" is now
338 "object:active-descendant-changed".
340 * fixes for 120220, 120725, some code cleanups.
342 * Improved code that rejects
343 spurious "window:activate/deactivate" pairs when X key grabs occur.
346 * Documentation improvements for SpiAccessibleKeyListenerCB and related.
348 * new languages: hi, fi, et, mn, nl, is, ja, ro, bn.
351 What's new in at-spi-1.3.6:
353 * Add XEvIE support for those systems which have XEvIE.
355 * Correct values for MODIFIER_SHIFTLOCK and MODIFIER_ALT as part of fix
358 * Store event so that it can subsequently be referred to. Fixes bugs
361 * Add support for AccessibleAction on hyperlink object.
363 * Defer focus: events to reduce number of window switch events reported.
364 This a partial fix for bug #108664.
366 * Eliminate warning messages reported when out-of-process applet starts.
369 * Register out-of-process applet as application only while it has top level
370 window displayed. This fixes bug #111578.
372 * Add translations: Simplified Chinese [Yi Yang], Azerbaijani [Metin Amiroff],
373 Icelandic [Richard Allen], Italian [Alessio Frusciante],
374 Korean [Changwoo Ryu], Danish [Ole Alursen], Albanian [Lauent Dhima],
375 Malay [Hasbullah Bin Pit], Vietnamese [Pablo Saratxaga],
376 Belarusian [Belarusian team <i18n@mova.org>],
377 Russian [Russian team <gnome-cyr@gnome.org>], Portuguese [Duarte Loreto],
378 Slovak [Marcel Telka], Serbian [Serbian team (Prevod.org)]
379 Esperanto [Charles Voelger], Brazilian [Gustavo Noronha Silva],
380 Welsh [Dafydd Harries], Dutch [Vincent van Adrighem],
381 Spanish [Pablo Gonzalo del Campo], Polish [Artur Flinta],
382 Catalan [Jordi Mallach], French [Chistophe Marlet],
383 Hebrew [Gil "Dolfin" Osher], German [Christian Neumair],
384 Czech [Miloslav Trmac], Swedish [Christian Rose]
386 What's new in at-spi-1.3.4:
388 * require atk 1.3.4 throughout.
390 * Fix for crasher bug in cspi, exceptions were not being properly
393 * added cspi_peek_ev()
395 * added SPI_ROLE_AUTOCOMPLETE, SPI_STATE_INDETERMINATE (for
396 checkboxes in the 'inconsistent' state)
398 * initial wrapper implementations for AccessibleStreamableContent.
401 * implement "string" synthesis type in SPI_generateKeyEvent.
403 * Added cspi client-side APIs for exception handling.
405 * bugfixes for #114370, #113268, #108664, #92143,
407 What's new in at-spi-1.3.2:
411 What's new in at-spi-1.3.1:
413 * Fixes for 109626, 89350, 100424, 100426, 110419, 107261, 107479,
414 108666, 104730, 111793.
418 * gnome-2-2 branch created.
420 What's new in at-spi-1.1.9:
422 * Fixes for 107985, 107988, 105291, 107256, 107254, 105836,
423 104622, 105291, 104744, 104741, 101524, 102830, 98120, 94275.
425 * added support for mouse buttons 4 and 5.
427 * compiler warning fixes.
429 What's new in at-spi-1.1.8:
431 * Added getRangeExtents() and getBoundedRanges() API for more
432 efficient screen review [100944].
434 What's new in at-spi-1.1.7:
436 * Added spi_keymask values for Mod4 and Mod5.
437 * Performance improvements and bugfixes from Michael.
439 What's new in at-spi-1.1.6:
441 * Fixes for #99799, #10530.
443 * New methods in cspi:
444 'AccessibleEvent_ref' and 'AccessibleEvent_unref'
445 to allow lifecycle management of AccessibleEvents outside of
446 the emission handler.
448 What's new in at-spi-1.1.6:
450 * event struct in libspi is bigger, increased unimplemented
451 slot count for sufficient future bincompatible expansion.
452 (WARNING: breaks bincompat for direct CORBA clients. CSPI clients
455 * New accessor methods allow state-coherent query of many
458 * API Frozen for GNOME 2.2.
460 * New role types: APPLICATION, HEADER, FOOTER, PARAGRAPH, RULER.
462 * New relations, FLOWS_FROM, FLOWS_TO, EMBEDS, EMBEDDED_BY,
465 * New state, MANAGES_DESCENDANTS. New event, "active-descendant-changed".
467 * reduced debug output, unless you set AT_SPI_DEBUG environment
468 variable to string which parses to an integer value > 0.
470 * added definitions for SPI_KEYMASK_BUTTON1, etc.
472 * added SPI_LAYER_WINDOW.
474 * Added ability to register 'device event listeners' which can
475 consume device events, such as mouse events.
477 * Added support for mouse and key-modifier event notification.
479 * deprecated KeyEventType in favor of EventType.
481 * bugfixes for >50 bugs including: 98836, 98842, 97916, 95828,
482 93592, 95940, 95517, 93658, 95055, 94555, 84856.
484 * updated copyrights to include Ximian.
486 What's new in at-spi-1.1.0:
488 * event listener notifications are no longer oneways.
489 * bugfixes for 84900, 84908, 84897, 84898.
490 * performance improvement for event listeners.
492 What's new in at-spi-1.0.1:
496 What's new in at-spi-1.0.0:
498 * API Freeze (1.0 API is now FINAL)
499 * added boolean return for
500 Accessibility_Registry_registerKeystrokeListener.
501 * Revved activation ID for registry to "1.0"
502 * many bugfixes and improvements to global key listener implementation.
503 * improvements to regression test "test-simple", added key
504 listener/synthesis test.
505 * added sample code in "test" to demonstrate how flat line-mode
506 screen-review can be implemented with at-spi.
508 What's new in at-spi-0.13.1:
510 (note: 0.13.1 is not binary compatible with 0.12.1, clients will need
513 * fix for bugzilla bug 80616
514 * IDL change which will affect direct CORBA users of the keystroke
516 * added a new test harness, event-listener-test, which also
517 has a simple tree traversal timing benchmark. event-listener-test
518 attaches listeners to all currently supported events (and a few
519 events which are not fully implemented yet); it thus serves
520 as useful event listener sample code as well as being a diagnostic
523 What's new in at-spi-0.12.1:
525 * fixes for bugzilla bugs 78249,68929,76615,71686,72300,78247,72300,78249
526 relating to build issues on some architectures (some of these were
527 fixed in 0.10 but additional fixes were included in 0.12.1).
528 * added new test program for our key listener API.
529 * added implementation of IDL 'exit' method to our
530 magnifier and mag_control client.
531 * Badly broken AccessibleStateSet implementation fixed by
533 * Added implementation for AccessibleComponent_grabFocus method.
534 * Improvements to documentation.
538 * Added missing seek_type param in
539 AccessibleStreamableContent_seek [78888],
540 previously documented but not in signature;
541 this was unused API but needed fixing for the future.
543 * Added API for AccessibleTable_selectRow and _selectColumn,
544 corresponding to similar API in ATK, and provided
545 implementation. [76201]
547 * Added boolean return types to a number of IDL methods whose
548 corresponding cspi wrappers and ATK methods already had boolean
551 * Made Accessibility_StateSet inherit from BonoboUnknown as it should;
552 this was the main existing breakage in StateSet.
560 getStateName () and STATE_EXTENDED to allow extension of State API (already
563 AccessibleAction_getType () and AccessibleAction_getTypeName ().
565 need getBaseAttributes ()
566 for AccessibleText (available in ATK I think).
568 table: getVisibleRange
570 state: HEADER, etc. for spreadsheet cells