1 What's new in at-spi-1.7.11:
5 * Fixed getAttributes APIs.
7 * Export Hyperlink interface for AtkHyperlinkImpl peers.
9 * Aggregate Document interface.
11 What's new in at-spi-1.7.10:
13 * New method Selection::deselectChild. RFE #326535.
15 What's new in at-spi-1.7.9:
17 * I18n uses po/LINGUAS now.
19 * Table enhancement: new method Table::getRowColumnExtentsAtIndex
20 RFE #326536. Assistance from Ariel Rios.
22 * Text enhancement: Text::getAttributeRun, Text::getDefaultAttributeSet
23 RFE #326540. Assistance from Ariel Rios.
25 * New interface, Document. RFE #326520.
27 * New roles, LINK, REDUNDANT_OBJECT, INPUT_METHOD_WINDOW, FORM.
29 * Meaningful implementation and bridges for StreamableContent.
32 * Added STATE_VISITED, and relations DESCRIBED_BY, DESCRIPTION_FOR,
35 What's new in at-spi-1.7.4:
37 * Fixed dist to include Accessibility_Selector.idl (missing from dist though
40 * Bugfixes to EventDetails event support, and fixed event emission for
41 implementors of SPI_REMOTE_OBJECT.
43 What's new in at-spi-1.7.0 through 1.7.3:
45 * Added idl/Accessibility_Selector.idl to the repository (missing in 1.7.0
46 through 1.7.2, added in 1.7.3)
50 All the IDL is now documented with doxygen-compatible docs.
51 Just run 'doxygen oxyfile' in the IDL directory. (This will
52 be automated in a future version).
57 Accessibility::Accessible:getAttributes (name/value pair annotation
59 Accessibility::Accessible:getApplication (retrieves ref to host app)
60 Accessibility::Component:getAlpha (get transparency/opacity value of component)
61 Accessibility::Image:getLocale (get POSIX locale for image and
63 Accessibility::Text:getAttributeValue (retrieve a single named
65 Accessibility::Relation:RELATION_PARENT_WINDOW_OF
66 Accessibility::Role:ROLE_ENTRY, ROLE_CHART, ROLE_CAPTION,
67 ROLE_DOCUMENT_FRAME, ROLE_HEADING, ROLE_PAGE, ROLE_SECTION (New roles
68 for complex docs and forms.)
69 Accessibility::State:STATE_REQUIRED, STATE_TRUNCATED, STATE_ANIMATED,
70 STATE_INVALID_ENTRY, STATE_SUPPORTS_AUTOCOMPLETION,
71 STATE_SELECTABLE_TEXT, STATE_IS_DEFAULT (New states, for complex forms)
72 Accessibility::EventDetails (new, more detailed info marshalled with events)
75 (AccessibleEvent_getSourceName):
76 (AccessibleEvent_getSourceRole):
77 (AccessibleEvent_getSourceApplication):
78 (AccessibleEvent_getSourceDetails):
79 New methods for interrogating/demarshalling
80 event details i.e. source's accessible name, role,
82 (Accessible_getAttributes): New, retrieve annotations/attributes
84 (Accessible_getHostApplication): New, retrieve enclosing Application
85 instance for an object.
86 (AccessibleImage_getImageLocale): New, retrieve Locale info for an
88 (AccessibleComponent_getAlpha): New, retrieve alpha value for
89 an AccessibleComponent (see discussion in idl section above).
92 Some compiler fixes from Kjartan Marass.
93 Some thread-related fixes from Michael Meeks.
94 Don't allow non-preemptive listeners to pre-empt events! (Bill Haneman).
96 What's new in at-spi-1.6.5:
98 * Fixed some discrepancies in event listener deregistration, improves
99 on-the-fly deregistration of event listeners. Fixed some tests.
101 * Fixed brokenness in 'make check.'
103 What's new in at-spi-1.6.4:
105 * Fixed XEVIE detection and configuration on XOrg version 6.8.2.
107 * Added locale 'rw' (Steve Murphy)
109 * Tweaked event-listener-test program.
111 * Leakfixes, from billh and Kjartan Marass.
113 What's new in at-spi-1.6.3:
117 * Added locale 'xh' (Adi Attar)
119 What's new in at-spi-1.6.2:
121 * fixes for problems at logout time (hangs, crashes)
123 * bugfixes for #160862, #152147.
125 * minor enhancements to test login-helper-server-test.
129 What's new in at-spi-1.6.1:
131 * LoginHelper API docs improved.
133 * fixed bug which caused problems if an
134 app which loaded atk-bridge forks, and one fork exits.
137 * New language: Galician (gl), Jesus Bravo Alvarez.
139 * Ansi build fixes (Kjartan Maraas).
141 What's new in at-spi-1.6.0:
145 What's new in at-spi-1.5.4:
147 * Registration failure at SPI_init is now detected and
148 an error code is returned to the caller (bug #147648).
150 * We now use polling as our default for detecting mouse
151 button changes (this was formerly our fallback method);
152 this prevents conflict with Xstroke.
153 [a better long-term fix requires the Xevie extension]
155 * We now register on a per-DISPLAY, but not per-SCREEN, basis.
156 This fixes several issues, see bugs #149962, #136986, #144086.
158 * New languages in configure.in:
164 What's new in at-spi-1.5.3:
166 * New role EMBEDDED (bug #144415).
168 * Added object:bounds-changed event, for detecting when the
169 component bounds of an object have changed onscreen.
173 What's new in at-spi-1.5.2:
175 * Added Accessibility_LoginHelper interface, and
176 LoginHelper GType. Also added client and server tests
177 for this interface. The purpose is to identify services
178 (typically, assistive technologies) which need access to
179 system or device services (keyboard, audio, serial ports,
180 posting windows, etc.) during login or re-login/authentication.
182 * fixed make distcheck.
184 * Added a check in cspi_object_unref, which should help in detecting
185 refcount bugs in clients (Padraig O'Briain).
188 Walloon (Pablo Saratxaga)
189 Bulgarian (Alexander Shopov)
191 What's new in at-spi-1.5.1:
193 * Allow synthesis of keysyms that aren't in the current X keymap.
195 * languages: Gujarati (Guntupalli Karunakar), Canadian English
198 * Added omitted declarations for already-existing methods
199 AccessibleTable_addRowSelection(),
200 AccessibleTable_addColumnSelection(),
201 AccessibleTable_removeRowSelection(),
202 AccessibleTable_removeColumnSelection().
204 * bug fixes: 136660, 120659 (partial), 132237, 134332.
208 What's new in at-spi-1.4.0: [GNOME 2.6.0 release]
210 * build improvements from Laszlo Peter.
211 * en_GB added to ALL_LINGUAS.
215 What's new in at-spi-1.3.16: [GNOME 2.6 RC1 release]
217 * Fix for bug #134036, which could steal keystrokes from applications
218 if at-spi registry failed.
220 * Build fixes, added .pc.in files (from Laszlo Peter).
224 This is the gnome-2.6 beta release of at-spi.
225 What's new in at-spi-1.3.15:
228 Amanpreet Singh Alam (pa)
232 What's new in at-spi-1.3.14:
234 * reduced debug output in normal usage. Don't PRIT_LEAKS
235 unless DEBUG_OBJECTS is #defined. Reduces SEGVs when reporting
236 on noncritical refcount issues.
238 What's new in at-spi-1.3.13:
240 * Build improvements: Requires automake-1.7, and calls GTK_DOC_CHECK.
241 (Padraig O'Briain, Matthias Clasen, some from Tomas Kloczko)
243 * bugfixes (bad g_free, and a null string issue that caused SEGV on
244 Solaris when running sample programs).
247 What's new in at-spi-1.3.11:
249 * Fix for docs bug #129728 (Sebastien Bacher).
251 * Fix for bug #129479, allows distinction between
252 multiple DISPLAY instances of at-spi registry.
254 * Fix for #124837, which could cause 'hang' interactions
255 between desktop and clients such as gnopernicus.
257 * Fixes for NUMLOCK mask behavior, bug #129103.
259 * Greatly improved key synthesis for non-Latin characters.
260 We can now synthesize any KeySym which is defined in the current
261 X keymap. (bug #128824). Thanks to Marcus G Kuhn for
262 the public-domain code borrowed here.
267 fa (Roozber Pournader),
269 id (Ahmad Riza H Nst)
272 What's new in at-spi-1.3.9:
274 * New api: AccessibleApplication_getLocale (app, type),
275 returns a POSIX locale string for a locale category,
276 for instance Accessibility_LOCALE_TYPE_MESSAGES.
278 * New SPI_ROLE_EDITBAR.
280 * New Accessible_getLocalizedRoleName.
282 * New AccessibleText_getDefaultAttributes.
284 * fixes to AccessibleStreamableContent, including a 'seek'
285 implementation for cspi. Thanks to Michael Meeks for some
286 related bugfixes in StreamableContent.
288 * now we emit key-released events to appropriate keylisteners.
290 * new LINGUAS in configure.in: nn (Asmund Sjeveland), lt (Gediminas Paulauskas),
291 no (Kjartan Masass), eu (Christian Rose).
293 * bugfixes for: #120991, #120473, #118581, #127463, #116009, #114926,
294 #125834, #111429, #121974.
296 What's new in at-spi-1.3.7:
298 This is the official GNOME 2.4.0 release of at-spi.
300 * fixed event-name bug, "object:active-descendant" is now
301 "object:active-descendant-changed".
303 * fixes for 120220, 120725, some code cleanups.
305 * Improved code that rejects
306 spurious "window:activate/deactivate" pairs when X key grabs occur.
309 * Documentation improvements for SpiAccessibleKeyListenerCB and related.
311 * new languages: hi, fi, et, mn, nl, is, ja, ro, bn.
314 What's new in at-spi-1.3.6:
316 * Add XEvIE support for those systems which have XEvIE.
318 * Correct values for MODIFIER_SHIFTLOCK and MODIFIER_ALT as part of fix
321 * Store event so that it can subsequently be referred to. Fixes bugs
324 * Add support for AccessibleAction on hyperlink object.
326 * Defer focus: events to reduce number of window switch events reported.
327 This a partial fix for bug #108664.
329 * Eliminate warning messages reported when out-of-process applet starts.
332 * Register out-of-process applet as application only while it has top level
333 window displayed. This fixes bug #111578.
335 * Add translations: Simplified Chinese [Yi Yang], Azerbaijani [Metin Amiroff],
336 Icelandic [Richard Allen], Italian [Alessio Frusciante],
337 Korean [Changwoo Ryu], Danish [Ole Alursen], Albanian [Lauent Dhima],
338 Malay [Hasbullah Bin Pit], Vietnamese [Pablo Saratxaga],
339 Belarusian [Belarusian team <i18n@mova.org>],
340 Russian [Russian team <gnome-cyr@gnome.org>], Portuguese [Duarte Loreto],
341 Slovak [Marcel Telka], Serbian [Serbian team (Prevod.org)]
342 Esperanto [Charles Voelger], Brazilian [Gustavo Noronha Silva],
343 Welsh [Dafydd Harries], Dutch [Vincent van Adrighem],
344 Spanish [Pablo Gonzalo del Campo], Polish [Artur Flinta],
345 Catalan [Jordi Mallach], French [Chistophe Marlet],
346 Hebrew [Gil "Dolfin" Osher], German [Christian Neumair],
347 Czech [Miloslav Trmac], Swedish [Christian Rose]
349 What's new in at-spi-1.3.4:
351 * require atk 1.3.4 throughout.
353 * Fix for crasher bug in cspi, exceptions were not being properly
356 * added cspi_peek_ev()
358 * added SPI_ROLE_AUTOCOMPLETE, SPI_STATE_INDETERMINATE (for
359 checkboxes in the 'inconsistent' state)
361 * initial wrapper implementations for AccessibleStreamableContent.
364 * implement "string" synthesis type in SPI_generateKeyEvent.
366 * Added cspi client-side APIs for exception handling.
368 * bugfixes for #114370, #113268, #108664, #92143,
370 What's new in at-spi-1.3.2:
374 What's new in at-spi-1.3.1:
376 * Fixes for 109626, 89350, 100424, 100426, 110419, 107261, 107479,
377 108666, 104730, 111793.
381 * gnome-2-2 branch created.
383 What's new in at-spi-1.1.9:
385 * Fixes for 107985, 107988, 105291, 107256, 107254, 105836,
386 104622, 105291, 104744, 104741, 101524, 102830, 98120, 94275.
388 * added support for mouse buttons 4 and 5.
390 * compiler warning fixes.
392 What's new in at-spi-1.1.8:
394 * Added getRangeExtents() and getBoundedRanges() API for more
395 efficient screen review [100944].
397 What's new in at-spi-1.1.7:
399 * Added spi_keymask values for Mod4 and Mod5.
400 * Performance improvements and bugfixes from Michael.
402 What's new in at-spi-1.1.6:
404 * Fixes for #99799, #10530.
406 * New methods in cspi:
407 'AccessibleEvent_ref' and 'AccessibleEvent_unref'
408 to allow lifecycle management of AccessibleEvents outside of
409 the emission handler.
411 What's new in at-spi-1.1.6:
413 * event struct in libspi is bigger, increased unimplemented
414 slot count for sufficient future bincompatible expansion.
415 (WARNING: breaks bincompat for direct CORBA clients. CSPI clients
418 * New accessor methods allow state-coherent query of many
421 * API Frozen for GNOME 2.2.
423 * New role types: APPLICATION, HEADER, FOOTER, PARAGRAPH, RULER.
425 * New relations, FLOWS_FROM, FLOWS_TO, EMBEDS, EMBEDDED_BY,
428 * New state, MANAGES_DESCENDANTS. New event, "active-descendant-changed".
430 * reduced debug output, unless you set AT_SPI_DEBUG environment
431 variable to string which parses to an integer value > 0.
433 * added definitions for SPI_KEYMASK_BUTTON1, etc.
435 * added SPI_LAYER_WINDOW.
437 * Added ability to register 'device event listeners' which can
438 consume device events, such as mouse events.
440 * Added support for mouse and key-modifier event notification.
442 * deprecated KeyEventType in favor of EventType.
444 * bugfixes for >50 bugs including: 98836, 98842, 97916, 95828,
445 93592, 95940, 95517, 93658, 95055, 94555, 84856.
447 * updated copyrights to include Ximian.
449 What's new in at-spi-1.1.0:
451 * event listener notifications are no longer oneways.
452 * bugfixes for 84900, 84908, 84897, 84898.
453 * performance improvement for event listeners.
455 What's new in at-spi-1.0.1:
459 What's new in at-spi-1.0.0:
461 * API Freeze (1.0 API is now FINAL)
462 * added boolean return for
463 Accessibility_Registry_registerKeystrokeListener.
464 * Revved activation ID for registry to "1.0"
465 * many bugfixes and improvements to global key listener implementation.
466 * improvements to regression test "test-simple", added key
467 listener/synthesis test.
468 * added sample code in "test" to demonstrate how flat line-mode
469 screen-review can be implemented with at-spi.
471 What's new in at-spi-0.13.1:
473 (note: 0.13.1 is not binary compatible with 0.12.1, clients will need
476 * fix for bugzilla bug 80616
477 * IDL change which will affect direct CORBA users of the keystroke
479 * added a new test harness, event-listener-test, which also
480 has a simple tree traversal timing benchmark. event-listener-test
481 attaches listeners to all currently supported events (and a few
482 events which are not fully implemented yet); it thus serves
483 as useful event listener sample code as well as being a diagnostic
486 What's new in at-spi-0.12.1:
488 * fixes for bugzilla bugs 78249,68929,76615,71686,72300,78247,72300,78249
489 relating to build issues on some architectures (some of these were
490 fixed in 0.10 but additional fixes were included in 0.12.1).
491 * added new test program for our key listener API.
492 * added implementation of IDL 'exit' method to our
493 magnifier and mag_control client.
494 * Badly broken AccessibleStateSet implementation fixed by
496 * Added implementation for AccessibleComponent_grabFocus method.
497 * Improvements to documentation.
501 * Added missing seek_type param in
502 AccessibleStreamableContent_seek [78888],
503 previously documented but not in signature;
504 this was unused API but needed fixing for the future.
506 * Added API for AccessibleTable_selectRow and _selectColumn,
507 corresponding to similar API in ATK, and provided
508 implementation. [76201]
510 * Added boolean return types to a number of IDL methods whose
511 corresponding cspi wrappers and ATK methods already had boolean
514 * Made Accessibility_StateSet inherit from BonoboUnknown as it should;
515 this was the main existing breakage in StateSet.
523 getStateName () and STATE_EXTENDED to allow extension of State API (already
526 AccessibleAction_getType () and AccessibleAction_getTypeName ().
528 need getBaseAttributes ()
529 for AccessibleText (available in ATK I think).
531 table: getVisibleRange
533 state: HEADER, etc. for spreadsheet cells