[nvda-addons] Re: Modernizing add-ons: doc file name, code review and what not

  • From: Kaveinthran Pulanthran <kavein2211@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: nvda-addons@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2014 17:26:03 +0800

hi, is there place where I could get latest addons such as the sound
customizer and stopwatch?

On 12/16/14, Him Prasad Gautam <drishtibachak@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> hi,
> can you provide the download link of Microsoft Access? please.
>
> On 12/16/14, Joseph Lee <joseph.lee22590@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> There are several add-ons that may need to be modernized to take
>> advantage
>> of latest NVDA core features, as well as to clean up the code within.
>> Please
>> check the list of add-ons below, and if you are the author, please try to
>> see what you can do with them:
>> * Balloon History: need a more detailed code review, add Gettext site
>> scons
>> and use the newer sconstruct file.
>> * Extended Digital Edition and Winamp: please take a look at what can be
>> done top modernize them.
>> * Instantbird: Let us add the new doc file name attribute in build vars.
>> * Instant Translate: If this guy uses Google, then I'd like to advise
>> that
>> this be reviewed to see what can be done with it.
>> * Microsoft Access: Could someone maintain this add-on please? I decided
>> to
>> move on from this add-on until NVDA core devs gets a chance to work on
>> this.
>>  * Remote Access: I'll remove the add-on, seeing that someone is already
>> working on it.
>> * Sound Customizer and Stopwatch: Could someone try reviewing these
>> add-ons?
>> * Unicode Braille Input: Mesar, I found a critical bug: when you open the
>> dialog the second time while the dialog is already open, NVDA freezes.
>> This
>> might be related to how the add-on calls pop up settings dialog function
>> in
>> GUI package.
>> * Weather: To whoever wrote this add-on, may I kindly suggest using a
>> wx.TextEntryDialog so users can specify their location instead of having
>> to
>> modify the .py file? Thanks.
>> * Windows 7 Magnifier: Bernd, if nobody steps forward to fix the
>> configuration issue, I'll take care of it unless someone else wants to
>> tackle this add-on.
>> * Word: Bram and Takuya, is it okay if we remove this add-on from the
>> repo
>> now NVDA core has the add-on's functionality?
>> For modernization process: I'd say authors should be given priority for
>> taking care of their add-ons unless if they wish the reviewers to do it
>> for
>> them (dear authors, please don't leave your add-ons orphaned, they need
>> you
>> to feed them with latest developments from NVDA core).
>> Thanks, and have a wonderful week.
>> Cheers,
>> Joseph
>> P.S. For Oriol (if you are still here): would you like to modernize your
>> add-ons or prefer someone to do it for you? Please let us know if you
>> want
>> someone to take care of your add-ons' modernization. Thanks.
>>
>>
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>
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> Him Prasad Gautam
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