1 What's new in at-spi-1.7.0 through 1.7.3:
3 * Added idl/Accessibility_Selector.idl to the repository (missing in 1.7.0
4 through 1.7.2, added in 1.7.3)
8 All the IDL is now documented with doxygen-compatible docs.
9 Just run 'doxygen oxyfile' in the IDL directory. (This will
10 be automated in a future version).
15 Accessibility::Accessible:getAttributes (name/value pair annotation
17 Accessibility::Accessible:getApplication (retrieves ref to host app)
18 Accessibility::Component:getAlpha (get transparency/opacity value of component)
19 Accessibility::Image:getLocale (get POSIX locale for image and
21 Accessibility::Text:getAttributeValue (retrieve a single named
23 Accessibility::Relation:RELATION_PARENT_WINDOW_OF
24 Accessibility::Role:ROLE_ENTRY, ROLE_CHART, ROLE_CAPTION,
25 ROLE_DOCUMENT_FRAME, ROLE_HEADING, ROLE_PAGE, ROLE_SECTION (New roles
26 for complex docs and forms.)
27 Accessibility::State:STATE_REQUIRED, STATE_TRUNCATED, STATE_ANIMATED,
28 STATE_INVALID_ENTRY, STATE_SUPPORTS_AUTOCOMPLETION,
29 STATE_SELECTABLE_TEXT, STATE_IS_DEFAULT (New states, for complex forms)
30 Accessibility::EventDetails (new, more detailed info marshalled with events)
33 (AccessibleEvent_getSourceName):
34 (AccessibleEvent_getSourceRole):
35 (AccessibleEvent_getSourceApplication):
36 (AccessibleEvent_getSourceDetails):
37 New methods for interrogating/demarshalling
38 event details i.e. source's accessible name, role,
40 (Accessible_getAttributes): New, retrieve annotations/attributes
42 (Accessible_getHostApplication): New, retrieve enclosing Application
43 instance for an object.
44 (AccessibleImage_getImageLocale): New, retrieve Locale info for an
46 (AccessibleComponent_getAlpha): New, retrieve alpha value for
47 an AccessibleComponent (see discussion in idl section above).
50 Some compiler fixes from Kjartan Marass.
51 Some thread-related fixes from Michael Meeks.
52 Don't allow non-preemptive listeners to pre-empt events! (Bill Haneman).
54 What's new in at-spi-1.6.5:
56 * Fixed some discrepancies in event listener deregistration, improves
57 on-the-fly deregistration of event listeners. Fixed some tests.
59 * Fixed brokenness in 'make check.'
61 What's new in at-spi-1.6.4:
63 * Fixed XEVIE detection and configuration on XOrg version 6.8.2.
65 * Added locale 'rw' (Steve Murphy)
67 * Tweaked event-listener-test program.
69 * Leakfixes, from billh and Kjartan Marass.
71 What's new in at-spi-1.6.3:
75 * Added locale 'xh' (Adi Attar)
77 What's new in at-spi-1.6.2:
79 * fixes for problems at logout time (hangs, crashes)
81 * bugfixes for #160862, #152147.
83 * minor enhancements to test login-helper-server-test.
87 What's new in at-spi-1.6.1:
89 * LoginHelper API docs improved.
91 * fixed bug which caused problems if an
92 app which loaded atk-bridge forks, and one fork exits.
95 * New language: Galician (gl), Jesus Bravo Alvarez.
97 * Ansi build fixes (Kjartan Maraas).
99 What's new in at-spi-1.6.0:
103 What's new in at-spi-1.5.4:
105 * Registration failure at SPI_init is now detected and
106 an error code is returned to the caller (bug #147648).
108 * We now use polling as our default for detecting mouse
109 button changes (this was formerly our fallback method);
110 this prevents conflict with Xstroke.
111 [a better long-term fix requires the Xevie extension]
113 * We now register on a per-DISPLAY, but not per-SCREEN, basis.
114 This fixes several issues, see bugs #149962, #136986, #144086.
116 * New languages in configure.in:
122 What's new in at-spi-1.5.3:
124 * New role EMBEDDED (bug #144415).
126 * Added object:bounds-changed event, for detecting when the
127 component bounds of an object have changed onscreen.
131 What's new in at-spi-1.5.2:
133 * Added Accessibility_LoginHelper interface, and
134 LoginHelper GType. Also added client and server tests
135 for this interface. The purpose is to identify services
136 (typically, assistive technologies) which need access to
137 system or device services (keyboard, audio, serial ports,
138 posting windows, etc.) during login or re-login/authentication.
140 * fixed make distcheck.
142 * Added a check in cspi_object_unref, which should help in detecting
143 refcount bugs in clients (Padraig O'Briain).
146 Walloon (Pablo Saratxaga)
147 Bulgarian (Alexander Shopov)
149 What's new in at-spi-1.5.1:
151 * Allow synthesis of keysyms that aren't in the current X keymap.
153 * languages: Gujarati (Guntupalli Karunakar), Canadian English
156 * Added omitted declarations for already-existing methods
157 AccessibleTable_addRowSelection(),
158 AccessibleTable_addColumnSelection(),
159 AccessibleTable_removeRowSelection(),
160 AccessibleTable_removeColumnSelection().
162 * bug fixes: 136660, 120659 (partial), 132237, 134332.
166 What's new in at-spi-1.4.0: [GNOME 2.6.0 release]
168 * build improvements from Laszlo Peter.
169 * en_GB added to ALL_LINGUAS.
173 What's new in at-spi-1.3.16: [GNOME 2.6 RC1 release]
175 * Fix for bug #134036, which could steal keystrokes from applications
176 if at-spi registry failed.
178 * Build fixes, added .pc.in files (from Laszlo Peter).
182 This is the gnome-2.6 beta release of at-spi.
183 What's new in at-spi-1.3.15:
186 Amanpreet Singh Alam (pa)
190 What's new in at-spi-1.3.14:
192 * reduced debug output in normal usage. Don't PRIT_LEAKS
193 unless DEBUG_OBJECTS is #defined. Reduces SEGVs when reporting
194 on noncritical refcount issues.
196 What's new in at-spi-1.3.13:
198 * Build improvements: Requires automake-1.7, and calls GTK_DOC_CHECK.
199 (Padraig O'Briain, Matthias Clasen, some from Tomas Kloczko)
201 * bugfixes (bad g_free, and a null string issue that caused SEGV on
202 Solaris when running sample programs).
205 What's new in at-spi-1.3.11:
207 * Fix for docs bug #129728 (Sebastien Bacher).
209 * Fix for bug #129479, allows distinction between
210 multiple DISPLAY instances of at-spi registry.
212 * Fix for #124837, which could cause 'hang' interactions
213 between desktop and clients such as gnopernicus.
215 * Fixes for NUMLOCK mask behavior, bug #129103.
217 * Greatly improved key synthesis for non-Latin characters.
218 We can now synthesize any KeySym which is defined in the current
219 X keymap. (bug #128824). Thanks to Marcus G Kuhn for
220 the public-domain code borrowed here.
225 fa (Roozber Pournader),
227 id (Ahmad Riza H Nst)
230 What's new in at-spi-1.3.9:
232 * New api: AccessibleApplication_getLocale (app, type),
233 returns a POSIX locale string for a locale category,
234 for instance Accessibility_LOCALE_TYPE_MESSAGES.
236 * New SPI_ROLE_EDITBAR.
238 * New Accessible_getLocalizedRoleName.
240 * New AccessibleText_getDefaultAttributes.
242 * fixes to AccessibleStreamableContent, including a 'seek'
243 implementation for cspi. Thanks to Michael Meeks for some
244 related bugfixes in StreamableContent.
246 * now we emit key-released events to appropriate keylisteners.
248 * new LINGUAS in configure.in: nn (Asmund Sjeveland), lt (Gediminas Paulauskas),
249 no (Kjartan Masass), eu (Christian Rose).
251 * bugfixes for: #120991, #120473, #118581, #127463, #116009, #114926,
252 #125834, #111429, #121974.
254 What's new in at-spi-1.3.7:
256 This is the official GNOME 2.4.0 release of at-spi.
258 * fixed event-name bug, "object:active-descendant" is now
259 "object:active-descendant-changed".
261 * fixes for 120220, 120725, some code cleanups.
263 * Improved code that rejects
264 spurious "window:activate/deactivate" pairs when X key grabs occur.
267 * Documentation improvements for SpiAccessibleKeyListenerCB and related.
269 * new languages: hi, fi, et, mn, nl, is, ja, ro, bn.
272 What's new in at-spi-1.3.6:
274 * Add XEvIE support for those systems which have XEvIE.
276 * Correct values for MODIFIER_SHIFTLOCK and MODIFIER_ALT as part of fix
279 * Store event so that it can subsequently be referred to. Fixes bugs
282 * Add support for AccessibleAction on hyperlink object.
284 * Defer focus: events to reduce number of window switch events reported.
285 This a partial fix for bug #108664.
287 * Eliminate warning messages reported when out-of-process applet starts.
290 * Register out-of-process applet as application only while it has top level
291 window displayed. This fixes bug #111578.
293 * Add translations: Simplified Chinese [Yi Yang], Azerbaijani [Metin Amiroff],
294 Icelandic [Richard Allen], Italian [Alessio Frusciante],
295 Korean [Changwoo Ryu], Danish [Ole Alursen], Albanian [Lauent Dhima],
296 Malay [Hasbullah Bin Pit], Vietnamese [Pablo Saratxaga],
297 Belarusian [Belarusian team <i18n@mova.org>],
298 Russian [Russian team <gnome-cyr@gnome.org>], Portuguese [Duarte Loreto],
299 Slovak [Marcel Telka], Serbian [Serbian team (Prevod.org)]
300 Esperanto [Charles Voelger], Brazilian [Gustavo Noronha Silva],
301 Welsh [Dafydd Harries], Dutch [Vincent van Adrighem],
302 Spanish [Pablo Gonzalo del Campo], Polish [Artur Flinta],
303 Catalan [Jordi Mallach], French [Chistophe Marlet],
304 Hebrew [Gil "Dolfin" Osher], German [Christian Neumair],
305 Czech [Miloslav Trmac], Swedish [Christian Rose]
307 What's new in at-spi-1.3.4:
309 * require atk 1.3.4 throughout.
311 * Fix for crasher bug in cspi, exceptions were not being properly
314 * added cspi_peek_ev()
316 * added SPI_ROLE_AUTOCOMPLETE, SPI_STATE_INDETERMINATE (for
317 checkboxes in the 'inconsistent' state)
319 * initial wrapper implementations for AccessibleStreamableContent.
322 * implement "string" synthesis type in SPI_generateKeyEvent.
324 * Added cspi client-side APIs for exception handling.
326 * bugfixes for #114370, #113268, #108664, #92143,
328 What's new in at-spi-1.3.2:
332 What's new in at-spi-1.3.1:
334 * Fixes for 109626, 89350, 100424, 100426, 110419, 107261, 107479,
335 108666, 104730, 111793.
339 * gnome-2-2 branch created.
341 What's new in at-spi-1.1.9:
343 * Fixes for 107985, 107988, 105291, 107256, 107254, 105836,
344 104622, 105291, 104744, 104741, 101524, 102830, 98120, 94275.
346 * added support for mouse buttons 4 and 5.
348 * compiler warning fixes.
350 What's new in at-spi-1.1.8:
352 * Added getRangeExtents() and getBoundedRanges() API for more
353 efficient screen review [100944].
355 What's new in at-spi-1.1.7:
357 * Added spi_keymask values for Mod4 and Mod5.
358 * Performance improvements and bugfixes from Michael.
360 What's new in at-spi-1.1.6:
362 * Fixes for #99799, #10530.
364 * New methods in cspi:
365 'AccessibleEvent_ref' and 'AccessibleEvent_unref'
366 to allow lifecycle management of AccessibleEvents outside of
367 the emission handler.
369 What's new in at-spi-1.1.6:
371 * event struct in libspi is bigger, increased unimplemented
372 slot count for sufficient future bincompatible expansion.
373 (WARNING: breaks bincompat for direct CORBA clients. CSPI clients
376 * New accessor methods allow state-coherent query of many
379 * API Frozen for GNOME 2.2.
381 * New role types: APPLICATION, HEADER, FOOTER, PARAGRAPH, RULER.
383 * New relations, FLOWS_FROM, FLOWS_TO, EMBEDS, EMBEDDED_BY,
386 * New state, MANAGES_DESCENDANTS. New event, "active-descendant-changed".
388 * reduced debug output, unless you set AT_SPI_DEBUG environment
389 variable to string which parses to an integer value > 0.
391 * added definitions for SPI_KEYMASK_BUTTON1, etc.
393 * added SPI_LAYER_WINDOW.
395 * Added ability to register 'device event listeners' which can
396 consume device events, such as mouse events.
398 * Added support for mouse and key-modifier event notification.
400 * deprecated KeyEventType in favor of EventType.
402 * bugfixes for >50 bugs including: 98836, 98842, 97916, 95828,
403 93592, 95940, 95517, 93658, 95055, 94555, 84856.
405 * updated copyrights to include Ximian.
407 What's new in at-spi-1.1.0:
409 * event listener notifications are no longer oneways.
410 * bugfixes for 84900, 84908, 84897, 84898.
411 * performance improvement for event listeners.
413 What's new in at-spi-1.0.1:
417 What's new in at-spi-1.0.0:
419 * API Freeze (1.0 API is now FINAL)
420 * added boolean return for
421 Accessibility_Registry_registerKeystrokeListener.
422 * Revved activation ID for registry to "1.0"
423 * many bugfixes and improvements to global key listener implementation.
424 * improvements to regression test "test-simple", added key
425 listener/synthesis test.
426 * added sample code in "test" to demonstrate how flat line-mode
427 screen-review can be implemented with at-spi.
429 What's new in at-spi-0.13.1:
431 (note: 0.13.1 is not binary compatible with 0.12.1, clients will need
434 * fix for bugzilla bug 80616
435 * IDL change which will affect direct CORBA users of the keystroke
437 * added a new test harness, event-listener-test, which also
438 has a simple tree traversal timing benchmark. event-listener-test
439 attaches listeners to all currently supported events (and a few
440 events which are not fully implemented yet); it thus serves
441 as useful event listener sample code as well as being a diagnostic
444 What's new in at-spi-0.12.1:
446 * fixes for bugzilla bugs 78249,68929,76615,71686,72300,78247,72300,78249
447 relating to build issues on some architectures (some of these were
448 fixed in 0.10 but additional fixes were included in 0.12.1).
449 * added new test program for our key listener API.
450 * added implementation of IDL 'exit' method to our
451 magnifier and mag_control client.
452 * Badly broken AccessibleStateSet implementation fixed by
454 * Added implementation for AccessibleComponent_grabFocus method.
455 * Improvements to documentation.
459 * Added missing seek_type param in
460 AccessibleStreamableContent_seek [78888],
461 previously documented but not in signature;
462 this was unused API but needed fixing for the future.
464 * Added API for AccessibleTable_selectRow and _selectColumn,
465 corresponding to similar API in ATK, and provided
466 implementation. [76201]
468 * Added boolean return types to a number of IDL methods whose
469 corresponding cspi wrappers and ATK methods already had boolean
472 * Made Accessibility_StateSet inherit from BonoboUnknown as it should;
473 this was the main existing breakage in StateSet.
481 getStateName () and STATE_EXTENDED to allow extension of State API (already
484 AccessibleAction_getType () and AccessibleAction_getTypeName ().
486 need getBaseAttributes ()
487 for AccessibleText (available in ATK I think).
489 table: getVisibleRange
491 state: HEADER, etc. for spreadsheet cells