Orca's readiness (was Re: tarting orca)

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

Hi Cody:

Thanks again for the kind comments.

>   In both gnopernicus and orca, there are some delays in speech in some
> programs, for example, when I have focus with orca on the desktop, then
> press alt control tab to switch to m task bar, it'll take about 5
> seconds or so for a response. This is teh same case with gnopernicus...

My guess is that Orca is getting a flood of events from Evolution and
it's trying to keep up.  We might be able to do some optimization here.

>   Also, in orca, when hitting escape out of a email message to go back
> to the inbox view, it takes a while for the focus to be regained...

I'm not sure what you are referring to here - where are you when you hit
escape and what is the expected result?

>   other then this, I see nothing but good and high spirits. I seriously
> think that the comment that I read about orca not truly being ready for
> a home user yet is a little under estimated. 

Well...I tend to be very conservative in my statement of calling
something ready.  I really do not like the notion of overselling things
and prefer to be more up front about what works, what doesn't, and when
we plan to get to what.

> One thing about orca that does need
> improvement on is FireFox. 

Firefox is going to be a struggle for a while.  We've recently
collaborated with IBM to design improvements to the AT-SPI
implementation for Firefox, but these will probably not see the light of
day until Firefox 3.  We're working on some 'creative' solutions for
Firefox 2, which will probably be the first release that has any
semblance of usable support.  In addition, as we progress with Firefox,
we will definitely solicit people's input.

Thanks again!

Will