Re: Orca and the volume control in FC5?

[Rich Burridge <Rich Burridge Sun COM>]

Ricky Enger wrote:
> Hi all,
> I'm running FC5 and have also experienced this bizarre behavior with 
> the volume control applet.  Luckily, Orca tracks Alsamixer in a 
> terminal quite well, so that's a workable solution for the moment.  
> Still, I too would be curious to know whether this is an Orca tracking 
> issue or something specific to the applet itself.  I'm wondering if 
> anyone has encountered this in other distros, or if it's something 
> unique to FC5?

I can give you another data point. Using Solaris x86 (Nevada build 34), 
with
JDS/GNOME 2.14, and the latest Orca from CVS HEAD, I can happily
Control-Alt-Tab to select the bottom panel, then keep Tab'ing to select the
volume control. When it initially gets focus, I get the following debug 
output:

...
BRAILLE LINE:  'gnome-panel Application Bottom Expanded Edge Panel Frame 
Bottom Expanded Edge Panel Panel Volume: 61% EmbeddedComponent'
    VISIBLE:  'Volume: 61% EmbeddedComponent', cursor=1
SPEECH OUTPUT: 'Bottom Expanded Edge Panel panel'
SPEECH OUTPUT: 'Volume: 61% embedded component'
...

I have key echo enabled in my ~/.orca/user-settings.py file (via 
orca-setup),
and when I use the arrow keys it echoes "Down" and "Up" but there is no
other spoken or brailled indication from Orca. The volume does successfully
change though. No irratic behavior.

This might be a good example for somebody interesting in starting to do 
Orca
scripting. It would be nice for the current volume to be spoken/brailled 
after it's
been set to a new value. If anyone is interested, I can help them get 
started on
what needs to be done.

> At 11:39 AM 3/31/2006, you wrote:
>
> > Just wondering how many others have experienced issues with the 
> > volume control applet in FC5?  I can tab to the  appropriate sliders, 
> > but up and down arrowing on those sliders yields strange results.  
> > It's almost as if pressing the up and down arrows is causing the 
> > focus to shift off of the sliders.  I'm not sure whether this is 
> > indeed the case, or whether Orca is just not tracking them properly.
> >  
> > If anyone can shed more light on what is going on, that would be great.
> >  
> > Thanks,
> >  
> > --al
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