Re: [orca-list] Help is severely Broken!!!

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

Eeks!  This might be another victim of 
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=535827.

Works fine for me on OpenSolaris, though.  (OpenSolaris is at GNOME 2.24.x).

Will

Steve Holmes wrote:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> Hash: RIPEMD160
>
> I recall yelp getting fixed a while back so it would work with Orca.
> In fact, I recall it working too.  But now I tried to view a couple
> help pages with yelp and no go.  Whag happened here??? When I pull up
> the help/about dialog for yelp, the title says "Help 2.22.1 for the
> GNOME desktop".  I'm using Debian/Lenny with latest updates  and Orca
> 2.25.5Pre svnversion=4413.
>
> The only thing I can do with the help page is read with flat review
> keys.  But I can't do anything from the keyboard.  The arrow keys do
> nothing and page and page down don't scroll the page either.  In fact,
> I tried clicking the tontents page with the flat review key (/) and
> that seemed to have no effect either.  I really wonder what broke
> here?? Also, th make matters worse, most of the time when I quit this
> help viewer, I lose Orca and have to jump to a text console, kill the
> Orca process and then come back to my gnome window and restart Orca.
>
> This is really a mess now.  Did Debian downgrade yelp or something?
> Have there been changes to yelp to break accessibility?  Oh, I got
> into the preferences for yelp and the "Use Caret browsing" checkbox is
> checked.
>
> I wonder if I need to put those old scripts back in which substitute
> firefox to read the help pages.
>
> Any possible ideas here?
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
> Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux)
>
> iEYEAREDAAYFAkmDHrMACgkQWSjv55S0LfEkRgCgu3GYsbihlMsR2Svp8eyITY66
> Qj0AoJau16eScDm1W1DtX9qgLDfw0Cq6
> =TOmE
> -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
> _______________________________________________
> Orca-list mailing list
> Orca-list gnome org
> http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/orca-list
> Visit http://live.gnome.org/Orca for more information on Orca