Re: [orca-list] Orca gets stuck in some top pannel applets

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

Hi Doug:

I think the keyboard navigation issues are not Orca bugs.  Lack of 
presenting them properly *might* be Orca bugs, but the inability to use 
normal keyboard traversal techniques is more of an application or 
toolkit bug.

Furthermore, it can often be an application problem as opposed to 
something that can be globally fixed in a single location  :-(.  For 
example, instead of using the GtkStatusIcon, some apps such as Pidgin 
and I believe the user switcher, end up rolling their own misbehaved things.

The other day, I discovered that the fast user switch applet in 
particular seems to be quite focus happy -- once you get on it, it's 
hard to get away from it: you can navigate off it to the object to the 
left or right of it, but then your next navigation action brings you 
right back to the fast user switch applet.  My workaround is to remove 
that applet from the panel.  To do so, use "Shift+F10 -> Remove From 
Panel" when you're stuck on it.

I've logged bug http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=545713 to 
track the fast user switcher applet problem.  If people run into other 
problems, I highly encourage them to log bugs as well.

Will

Doug Lawlor wrote:
> Hello list:
> I don't know if this has been filed as a bug, but I notice if you have 
> focus to something like the gnome volume controle applet and the user 
> enters it using the tab key to move from applet to applet, the user is 
> unable to exit this applet using the tab key. Exiting the top pannel 
> using ctrl+alt+tab and reentering it again using the same key 
> combination still puts you back in the volume control applet with the 
> same result.
> Question: what do other users do in this situation?
> I am using orca-2.23.5pre from svn.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Doug
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