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

[Guy Schlosser <guyster bex net>]

I wanted to write and say that so far, my thunderbird experience has 
been totally awesome. I downloaded 3.0a2pre today, and the message list 
works flawlessly. Also, love the fact that when I press enter on a 
message, I'm immediately able to start arrowing through it if I want, or 
simply press the '+' key to start reading. In the words of Randy 
Jackson, I think we got a hot one here. I am running orca 2.22.1 with 
Ubuntu Hardy. I do have a question though, If I'm gonna upgrade to orca 
trunk, do atk and gail also have to be upgraded along with at-spi and Orca?

Thanks,


Guy


Steve Holmes wrote:
> 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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