[g-a-devel] caribou bugs after 3.14

[Daiki Ueno <ueno gnu org>]

Hello,

As mentioned in the yesterday's meeting, quite a few bugs (either
upstream/downstream) have been filed against caribou, after 3.14.

Those are exposed after caribou switched to D-Bus activation:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=683712

After the change, /usr/libexec/caribou (which uses at-spi2-core) is
always launched at gnome-shell startup, even for a short-lived 'gdm'
user session.  That seems to hit some corner-cases.

Mike fixed an issue right before 3.14:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1138934#c26

However, there are more coming:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1148362
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=738662

and perhaps unrelated one:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=738497

I can think of two options to mitigate the situation:

1. Fix all corner-cases
2. Delay the caribou invocation in gnome-shell, until it is really needed

It's tempting to do 2, but probably 1 would be the right way.  What do
people think?  Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,
--
Daiki Ueno