Re: [orca-list] A thunderbird issue

[Jacob Schmude <j schmude gmail com>]

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Hi
Well, I agree that it'd be best for the Mozilla guys to fix it. However,
as they don't seem in a hurry to do so there should probably be some
measures taken. Would keyboard echo be the only thing that suffers in
this instance? If so, single character or single word insertions could
trigger as normal, anything longer than that could be ignored. Since the
rogue text insert events seem to come in lines, it might at least help
the situation a bit.
The fact is we don't have an email client without issues. Since the
Evolution issues are currently blocked, this leaves Thunderbird and the
only really big problem it has is this. It has a few other speed issues
in large lists, but that's relatively minor compared with the issues
faced in the message composition window at least in my opinion.
What do you think?


On 05/11/2010 07:43 PM, Joanmarie Diggs wrote:
> Hey Jacob.
>
> Thanks for the clarification.
>
> > What I mean is that, if the message body area can be identified
>
> It can. No problem.
>
> > would it be possible to ignore all text inserted events for that control
>
> Sure.
>
> > and if that was done what would be the result?
>
> Keyboard echo would no longer function for one thing.
>
> > How does the text inserted event get used exactly?
>
> Depends on the environment. In an editable text widget, we do things
> like echo. Elsewhere (e.g. chat client), that's where we get and present
> an incoming message, add it to the stored history, etc.
>
> >  Is it used when you type into the message body area
>
> Yup.
>
> > or just
> > when the new text appears in the control by some other means?
>
> That too. Scripts examine the event, the surrounding circumstances, user
> preferences, etc. and then decide what, if anything, should be done.
> Thus to catch this case, we'd have to uniquely identify the unwanted
> events.
>
> Again, I could probably come up with some sort of heuristic based on
> surrounding events, event times, etc., but it would be a hack. My
> preference would be that the Mozilla guys stop with the unnecessary text
> inserted events.
>
> HTH. Take care.
> --joanie

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