Re: [orca-list] IMPORTANT: Testing needed for a patch to fix how Orca starts/restarts

[Storm Dragon <stormdragon2976 gmail com>]

Hi,
I have had no problems at all with normal usage. I did --version and got the info along with the other pygtk stuff. I haven't gotten the configuration dialog on restart so far.
Thanks
Storm

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On Mon, 2010-08-30 at 06:11 -0700, Steve Holmes wrote:
> I see your point now.  Yes, the patch made the version information
> work correctly and when I did a --help, I got the desired help
> messages.  I had no crashes or loss of speech.  Actually, when I did
> these tests with 2.30.2, I had no crashes nor losses of speech but did experience
> some strangeness with restarting of Orca and getting thrown into the
> configuration dialog.  I had no idea about those other pygtk messages
> showing up like that but I haven't run orca from the command line in a
> very long time so don't know when that other junk got introduced.  
>
> So to make this long story short, your changes work and the other side
> effects were already there.
>
> On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 03:12:04AM -0400, Joanmarie Diggs wrote:
> > Hey Steve, all.
> > 
> > Steve, with respect to this:
> > 
> > > I just installed 2.30.2 and I still get the goofy pygtk messages.  I
> > > slight variation here is I tried starting orca -v from a text console
> > > like before but made sure orca wasn't running in gnome.  I did the
> > > console tests from another terminal under my normal steve user account
> > > instead of root; I didn't get any hangs with either 2.30.2 nor the new
> > > patched version.
> > 
> > Does that mean that any goofiness and other problems you are seeing with
> > master + the patch you are also seeing with 2.30.2?
> > 
> > Or to put it another way:
> > 
> > Goofiness is bad; a hang is inexcusable. But one of my main questions at
> > the moment (for everyone) is: Does the patch introduce any regressions
> > or other unwanted behavior? If the problems are also in the stable
> > (2.30.2) branch, and the patch does not make anything worse, my
> > temptation would be to include it in 2.31.91. On the other hand, if the
> > patch introduces regressions that we cannot address with certainty, my
> > temptation would be to postpone making the changes in the patch until
> > after we branch for 2.32 (i.e. the patch would be part of what becomes
> > GNOME 3.0).
> > 
> > Thanks again! Take care.
> > --joanie
> > 
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