1 What's new in at-spi-1.7.10:
3 * New method Selection::deselectChild. RFE #326535.
5 What's new in at-spi-1.7.9:
7 * I18n uses po/LINGUAS now.
9 * Table enhancement: new method Table::getRowColumnExtentsAtIndex
10 RFE #326536. Assistance from Ariel Rios.
12 * Text enhancement: Text::getAttributeRun, Text::getDefaultAttributeSet
13 RFE #326540. Assistance from Ariel Rios.
15 * New interface, Document. RFE #326520.
17 * New roles, LINK, REDUNDANT_OBJECT, INPUT_METHOD_WINDOW, FORM.
19 * Meaningful implementation and bridges for StreamableContent.
22 * Added STATE_VISITED, and relations DESCRIBED_BY, DESCRIPTION_FOR,
25 What's new in at-spi-1.7.4:
27 * Fixed dist to include Accessibility_Selector.idl (missing from dist though
30 * Bugfixes to EventDetails event support, and fixed event emission for
31 implementors of SPI_REMOTE_OBJECT.
33 What's new in at-spi-1.7.0 through 1.7.3:
35 * Added idl/Accessibility_Selector.idl to the repository (missing in 1.7.0
36 through 1.7.2, added in 1.7.3)
40 All the IDL is now documented with doxygen-compatible docs.
41 Just run 'doxygen oxyfile' in the IDL directory. (This will
42 be automated in a future version).
47 Accessibility::Accessible:getAttributes (name/value pair annotation
49 Accessibility::Accessible:getApplication (retrieves ref to host app)
50 Accessibility::Component:getAlpha (get transparency/opacity value of component)
51 Accessibility::Image:getLocale (get POSIX locale for image and
53 Accessibility::Text:getAttributeValue (retrieve a single named
55 Accessibility::Relation:RELATION_PARENT_WINDOW_OF
56 Accessibility::Role:ROLE_ENTRY, ROLE_CHART, ROLE_CAPTION,
57 ROLE_DOCUMENT_FRAME, ROLE_HEADING, ROLE_PAGE, ROLE_SECTION (New roles
58 for complex docs and forms.)
59 Accessibility::State:STATE_REQUIRED, STATE_TRUNCATED, STATE_ANIMATED,
60 STATE_INVALID_ENTRY, STATE_SUPPORTS_AUTOCOMPLETION,
61 STATE_SELECTABLE_TEXT, STATE_IS_DEFAULT (New states, for complex forms)
62 Accessibility::EventDetails (new, more detailed info marshalled with events)
65 (AccessibleEvent_getSourceName):
66 (AccessibleEvent_getSourceRole):
67 (AccessibleEvent_getSourceApplication):
68 (AccessibleEvent_getSourceDetails):
69 New methods for interrogating/demarshalling
70 event details i.e. source's accessible name, role,
72 (Accessible_getAttributes): New, retrieve annotations/attributes
74 (Accessible_getHostApplication): New, retrieve enclosing Application
75 instance for an object.
76 (AccessibleImage_getImageLocale): New, retrieve Locale info for an
78 (AccessibleComponent_getAlpha): New, retrieve alpha value for
79 an AccessibleComponent (see discussion in idl section above).
82 Some compiler fixes from Kjartan Marass.
83 Some thread-related fixes from Michael Meeks.
84 Don't allow non-preemptive listeners to pre-empt events! (Bill Haneman).
86 What's new in at-spi-1.6.5:
88 * Fixed some discrepancies in event listener deregistration, improves
89 on-the-fly deregistration of event listeners. Fixed some tests.
91 * Fixed brokenness in 'make check.'
93 What's new in at-spi-1.6.4:
95 * Fixed XEVIE detection and configuration on XOrg version 6.8.2.
97 * Added locale 'rw' (Steve Murphy)
99 * Tweaked event-listener-test program.
101 * Leakfixes, from billh and Kjartan Marass.
103 What's new in at-spi-1.6.3:
107 * Added locale 'xh' (Adi Attar)
109 What's new in at-spi-1.6.2:
111 * fixes for problems at logout time (hangs, crashes)
113 * bugfixes for #160862, #152147.
115 * minor enhancements to test login-helper-server-test.
119 What's new in at-spi-1.6.1:
121 * LoginHelper API docs improved.
123 * fixed bug which caused problems if an
124 app which loaded atk-bridge forks, and one fork exits.
127 * New language: Galician (gl), Jesus Bravo Alvarez.
129 * Ansi build fixes (Kjartan Maraas).
131 What's new in at-spi-1.6.0:
135 What's new in at-spi-1.5.4:
137 * Registration failure at SPI_init is now detected and
138 an error code is returned to the caller (bug #147648).
140 * We now use polling as our default for detecting mouse
141 button changes (this was formerly our fallback method);
142 this prevents conflict with Xstroke.
143 [a better long-term fix requires the Xevie extension]
145 * We now register on a per-DISPLAY, but not per-SCREEN, basis.
146 This fixes several issues, see bugs #149962, #136986, #144086.
148 * New languages in configure.in:
154 What's new in at-spi-1.5.3:
156 * New role EMBEDDED (bug #144415).
158 * Added object:bounds-changed event, for detecting when the
159 component bounds of an object have changed onscreen.
163 What's new in at-spi-1.5.2:
165 * Added Accessibility_LoginHelper interface, and
166 LoginHelper GType. Also added client and server tests
167 for this interface. The purpose is to identify services
168 (typically, assistive technologies) which need access to
169 system or device services (keyboard, audio, serial ports,
170 posting windows, etc.) during login or re-login/authentication.
172 * fixed make distcheck.
174 * Added a check in cspi_object_unref, which should help in detecting
175 refcount bugs in clients (Padraig O'Briain).
178 Walloon (Pablo Saratxaga)
179 Bulgarian (Alexander Shopov)
181 What's new in at-spi-1.5.1:
183 * Allow synthesis of keysyms that aren't in the current X keymap.
185 * languages: Gujarati (Guntupalli Karunakar), Canadian English
188 * Added omitted declarations for already-existing methods
189 AccessibleTable_addRowSelection(),
190 AccessibleTable_addColumnSelection(),
191 AccessibleTable_removeRowSelection(),
192 AccessibleTable_removeColumnSelection().
194 * bug fixes: 136660, 120659 (partial), 132237, 134332.
198 What's new in at-spi-1.4.0: [GNOME 2.6.0 release]
200 * build improvements from Laszlo Peter.
201 * en_GB added to ALL_LINGUAS.
205 What's new in at-spi-1.3.16: [GNOME 2.6 RC1 release]
207 * Fix for bug #134036, which could steal keystrokes from applications
208 if at-spi registry failed.
210 * Build fixes, added .pc.in files (from Laszlo Peter).
214 This is the gnome-2.6 beta release of at-spi.
215 What's new in at-spi-1.3.15:
218 Amanpreet Singh Alam (pa)
222 What's new in at-spi-1.3.14:
224 * reduced debug output in normal usage. Don't PRIT_LEAKS
225 unless DEBUG_OBJECTS is #defined. Reduces SEGVs when reporting
226 on noncritical refcount issues.
228 What's new in at-spi-1.3.13:
230 * Build improvements: Requires automake-1.7, and calls GTK_DOC_CHECK.
231 (Padraig O'Briain, Matthias Clasen, some from Tomas Kloczko)
233 * bugfixes (bad g_free, and a null string issue that caused SEGV on
234 Solaris when running sample programs).
237 What's new in at-spi-1.3.11:
239 * Fix for docs bug #129728 (Sebastien Bacher).
241 * Fix for bug #129479, allows distinction between
242 multiple DISPLAY instances of at-spi registry.
244 * Fix for #124837, which could cause 'hang' interactions
245 between desktop and clients such as gnopernicus.
247 * Fixes for NUMLOCK mask behavior, bug #129103.
249 * Greatly improved key synthesis for non-Latin characters.
250 We can now synthesize any KeySym which is defined in the current
251 X keymap. (bug #128824). Thanks to Marcus G Kuhn for
252 the public-domain code borrowed here.
257 fa (Roozber Pournader),
259 id (Ahmad Riza H Nst)
262 What's new in at-spi-1.3.9:
264 * New api: AccessibleApplication_getLocale (app, type),
265 returns a POSIX locale string for a locale category,
266 for instance Accessibility_LOCALE_TYPE_MESSAGES.
268 * New SPI_ROLE_EDITBAR.
270 * New Accessible_getLocalizedRoleName.
272 * New AccessibleText_getDefaultAttributes.
274 * fixes to AccessibleStreamableContent, including a 'seek'
275 implementation for cspi. Thanks to Michael Meeks for some
276 related bugfixes in StreamableContent.
278 * now we emit key-released events to appropriate keylisteners.
280 * new LINGUAS in configure.in: nn (Asmund Sjeveland), lt (Gediminas Paulauskas),
281 no (Kjartan Masass), eu (Christian Rose).
283 * bugfixes for: #120991, #120473, #118581, #127463, #116009, #114926,
284 #125834, #111429, #121974.
286 What's new in at-spi-1.3.7:
288 This is the official GNOME 2.4.0 release of at-spi.
290 * fixed event-name bug, "object:active-descendant" is now
291 "object:active-descendant-changed".
293 * fixes for 120220, 120725, some code cleanups.
295 * Improved code that rejects
296 spurious "window:activate/deactivate" pairs when X key grabs occur.
299 * Documentation improvements for SpiAccessibleKeyListenerCB and related.
301 * new languages: hi, fi, et, mn, nl, is, ja, ro, bn.
304 What's new in at-spi-1.3.6:
306 * Add XEvIE support for those systems which have XEvIE.
308 * Correct values for MODIFIER_SHIFTLOCK and MODIFIER_ALT as part of fix
311 * Store event so that it can subsequently be referred to. Fixes bugs
314 * Add support for AccessibleAction on hyperlink object.
316 * Defer focus: events to reduce number of window switch events reported.
317 This a partial fix for bug #108664.
319 * Eliminate warning messages reported when out-of-process applet starts.
322 * Register out-of-process applet as application only while it has top level
323 window displayed. This fixes bug #111578.
325 * Add translations: Simplified Chinese [Yi Yang], Azerbaijani [Metin Amiroff],
326 Icelandic [Richard Allen], Italian [Alessio Frusciante],
327 Korean [Changwoo Ryu], Danish [Ole Alursen], Albanian [Lauent Dhima],
328 Malay [Hasbullah Bin Pit], Vietnamese [Pablo Saratxaga],
329 Belarusian [Belarusian team <i18n@mova.org>],
330 Russian [Russian team <gnome-cyr@gnome.org>], Portuguese [Duarte Loreto],
331 Slovak [Marcel Telka], Serbian [Serbian team (Prevod.org)]
332 Esperanto [Charles Voelger], Brazilian [Gustavo Noronha Silva],
333 Welsh [Dafydd Harries], Dutch [Vincent van Adrighem],
334 Spanish [Pablo Gonzalo del Campo], Polish [Artur Flinta],
335 Catalan [Jordi Mallach], French [Chistophe Marlet],
336 Hebrew [Gil "Dolfin" Osher], German [Christian Neumair],
337 Czech [Miloslav Trmac], Swedish [Christian Rose]
339 What's new in at-spi-1.3.4:
341 * require atk 1.3.4 throughout.
343 * Fix for crasher bug in cspi, exceptions were not being properly
346 * added cspi_peek_ev()
348 * added SPI_ROLE_AUTOCOMPLETE, SPI_STATE_INDETERMINATE (for
349 checkboxes in the 'inconsistent' state)
351 * initial wrapper implementations for AccessibleStreamableContent.
354 * implement "string" synthesis type in SPI_generateKeyEvent.
356 * Added cspi client-side APIs for exception handling.
358 * bugfixes for #114370, #113268, #108664, #92143,
360 What's new in at-spi-1.3.2:
364 What's new in at-spi-1.3.1:
366 * Fixes for 109626, 89350, 100424, 100426, 110419, 107261, 107479,
367 108666, 104730, 111793.
371 * gnome-2-2 branch created.
373 What's new in at-spi-1.1.9:
375 * Fixes for 107985, 107988, 105291, 107256, 107254, 105836,
376 104622, 105291, 104744, 104741, 101524, 102830, 98120, 94275.
378 * added support for mouse buttons 4 and 5.
380 * compiler warning fixes.
382 What's new in at-spi-1.1.8:
384 * Added getRangeExtents() and getBoundedRanges() API for more
385 efficient screen review [100944].
387 What's new in at-spi-1.1.7:
389 * Added spi_keymask values for Mod4 and Mod5.
390 * Performance improvements and bugfixes from Michael.
392 What's new in at-spi-1.1.6:
394 * Fixes for #99799, #10530.
396 * New methods in cspi:
397 'AccessibleEvent_ref' and 'AccessibleEvent_unref'
398 to allow lifecycle management of AccessibleEvents outside of
399 the emission handler.
401 What's new in at-spi-1.1.6:
403 * event struct in libspi is bigger, increased unimplemented
404 slot count for sufficient future bincompatible expansion.
405 (WARNING: breaks bincompat for direct CORBA clients. CSPI clients
408 * New accessor methods allow state-coherent query of many
411 * API Frozen for GNOME 2.2.
413 * New role types: APPLICATION, HEADER, FOOTER, PARAGRAPH, RULER.
415 * New relations, FLOWS_FROM, FLOWS_TO, EMBEDS, EMBEDDED_BY,
418 * New state, MANAGES_DESCENDANTS. New event, "active-descendant-changed".
420 * reduced debug output, unless you set AT_SPI_DEBUG environment
421 variable to string which parses to an integer value > 0.
423 * added definitions for SPI_KEYMASK_BUTTON1, etc.
425 * added SPI_LAYER_WINDOW.
427 * Added ability to register 'device event listeners' which can
428 consume device events, such as mouse events.
430 * Added support for mouse and key-modifier event notification.
432 * deprecated KeyEventType in favor of EventType.
434 * bugfixes for >50 bugs including: 98836, 98842, 97916, 95828,
435 93592, 95940, 95517, 93658, 95055, 94555, 84856.
437 * updated copyrights to include Ximian.
439 What's new in at-spi-1.1.0:
441 * event listener notifications are no longer oneways.
442 * bugfixes for 84900, 84908, 84897, 84898.
443 * performance improvement for event listeners.
445 What's new in at-spi-1.0.1:
449 What's new in at-spi-1.0.0:
451 * API Freeze (1.0 API is now FINAL)
452 * added boolean return for
453 Accessibility_Registry_registerKeystrokeListener.
454 * Revved activation ID for registry to "1.0"
455 * many bugfixes and improvements to global key listener implementation.
456 * improvements to regression test "test-simple", added key
457 listener/synthesis test.
458 * added sample code in "test" to demonstrate how flat line-mode
459 screen-review can be implemented with at-spi.
461 What's new in at-spi-0.13.1:
463 (note: 0.13.1 is not binary compatible with 0.12.1, clients will need
466 * fix for bugzilla bug 80616
467 * IDL change which will affect direct CORBA users of the keystroke
469 * added a new test harness, event-listener-test, which also
470 has a simple tree traversal timing benchmark. event-listener-test
471 attaches listeners to all currently supported events (and a few
472 events which are not fully implemented yet); it thus serves
473 as useful event listener sample code as well as being a diagnostic
476 What's new in at-spi-0.12.1:
478 * fixes for bugzilla bugs 78249,68929,76615,71686,72300,78247,72300,78249
479 relating to build issues on some architectures (some of these were
480 fixed in 0.10 but additional fixes were included in 0.12.1).
481 * added new test program for our key listener API.
482 * added implementation of IDL 'exit' method to our
483 magnifier and mag_control client.
484 * Badly broken AccessibleStateSet implementation fixed by
486 * Added implementation for AccessibleComponent_grabFocus method.
487 * Improvements to documentation.
491 * Added missing seek_type param in
492 AccessibleStreamableContent_seek [78888],
493 previously documented but not in signature;
494 this was unused API but needed fixing for the future.
496 * Added API for AccessibleTable_selectRow and _selectColumn,
497 corresponding to similar API in ATK, and provided
498 implementation. [76201]
500 * Added boolean return types to a number of IDL methods whose
501 corresponding cspi wrappers and ATK methods already had boolean
504 * Made Accessibility_StateSet inherit from BonoboUnknown as it should;
505 this was the main existing breakage in StateSet.
513 getStateName () and STATE_EXTENDED to allow extension of State API (already
516 AccessibleAction_getType () and AccessibleAction_getTypeName ().
518 need getBaseAttributes ()
519 for AccessibleText (available in ATK I think).
521 table: getVisibleRange
523 state: HEADER, etc. for spreadsheet cells