Re: [orca-list] Is Cut/Paste Broken in Terminal?

[Joanmarie Diggs <joanmarie diggs gmail com>]

Hi Steve.

> Clearly this tells me that either mouse clicks in flat review are
> broken or something has gone wrong with gnome-terminal.

Awhile back we changed Orca to consider all modifiers and their states
when determining if a given set of keystrokes was a match for an Orca
command or not. See http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=494196.

By insisting that each keybinding is a specific set of keys -- and only
those keys -- we avoid accidentally taking over commands we didn't mean
to as well as having ambiguous bindings which might result from the
addition of new commands/bindings down the road.

However, the apparent side effect of this change is that before any ol'
use of NumPad slash was seen as a left-click. The fact that you were
holding down Shift was irrelevant to us. So we clicked, Shift did what
it would do anyway, and you selected text via mouse click. Now, Shift
+NumPad slash is seen as a different command from NumPad slash so we
don't click. Because Shift+NumPad slash isn't an Orca command, we don't
do anything else with it either.

I'm not sure what the right answer is here. Perhaps we should make an
exception for clicking....

Thanks for the report.  Take care.
--Joanie