Re: [orca-list] Test: Thunderbird has improved, and seems to work rather stable

["Steve Holmes" <steve holmesgrown com>]

I've had little experience with Thunderbird so far but lately got it to work
pretty well.  I don't know about any preferred settings but I tabbed around
a few times and managed to get the message list to work right.  I honestly
can't say exactly what I did.  A couple times, I got into the list but later
lost speech in it and it usually got fixed when I quit out of T Bird and
restarted it; hardly a viable solution but the past 3 or 4 times I was in
there, I never lost proper focus in the message list.  The tree list of mail
folders always worked for me.  I loved the speed of navigation within a
message body.

The only big problem I have and I may post a bug is flat review really does
not work well at all in thunderbird.  Most of the time, flat reviewing just
says "Symbol 0" even when I press the dash key first to route the flat
review cursor.  Not sure what the deal is there.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Hunt [mailto:huntp ukonline co uk]
> Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2008 10:21 AM
> To: Hermann; orca-list gnome org
> Subject: Re: [orca-list] Test: Thunderbird has improved,and seems to work
> rather stable
>
> Hi Hermann,
>
> I have downloaded Thunderbird 3.0A2Pre.
>
> Definitley an improvement over Tb 2 in terms of it not crashing.
>
> Do you have to do any particular command or choose a particular option to
> get the message list working?  When I tab to it I hear a message about
> column headers and Orca is silent when I arrow up and down through the
> messages.  "Where am I?" will tell me the row number I'm on but strangely
> if
> I do a "say current line" it always reads the menu bar.
>
> When reading a message I find that blank lines are not read out unless
> there
> are two blank lines together (i.e 3 newline symbols in a row), is this what
> you get?
>
> Could you tell me how to switch to gecko navigation?
>
> Btw I'm using Hardy with trunk atk, gail and at-spi and latest Orca from
> the
> 2.22 branch.
>
> Paul
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Hermann" <meinelisten onlinehome de>
> To: <orca-list gnome org>
> Sent: Monday, May 12, 2008 12:33 PM
> Subject: [orca-list] Test: Thunderbird has improved,and seems to work
> rather
> stable
>
>
> > hi,
> > downloaded and installed Thunderbird 3.0a2pre, and it seems that it has
> > been improved remarkable.
> > Till now I've experienced no crashes, and the message list is shown
> > properly, which wasn't the case in former versions.
> > You can read mails easier than in Evolution, because you mustn't scroll
> > the headers. Sometimes the first line is repeated when reading with the
> > arrow keys.
> > But one thing is annoying: When you reread a new message, the cursor
> > gets stuck in the last line. For example, when you write your name after
> > the last sentence in a new line, and then perform an Enter, you don't
> > land on the empty line when reading the message from the top using the
> > arrow keys.
> > You have to press Control+End to place the cursor at the end of the
> > message.
> > Has anyone tested the last versions of Thunderbird?
> > I like this program and use it as standard mail client under Windows,
> > and I would prefer doing so under Linux if possible.
> > Hermann
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