Re: [orca-list] Orca and the problem when opening messages in a new window in thunderbird

[Joanmarie Diggs <joanmarie diggs gmail com>]

Hey Michael.

> I do have one question before I go and do that, could there ever be a 
> meaning to the active window giving the window:activated event more than 
> once? Why I ask this is, might it be worth adding my fix to orca anyway 
> should the mozilla bug be hard to track down?

I'll give it some thought. But in the meantime, I have a question for
you: Can you guarantee me (and the full Orca community) that there will
*never* be such a meaning? Because if you cannot, I would be very
hesitant to put something in the method that handles pretty much all
window:activate events and say "nah, we'll ignore some of these based on
a simple equality check." 

Like I said, *if* we wind up hacking around this in Orca, we will limit
it (i.e. to the Thunderbird script; not default.py). And we will add
more heuristics to ensure we don't accidentally ignore something we
shouldn't. And to be honest, we'd probably put it somewhere else like
locusOfFocusChanged.

But, like I also said, they have a really awesome engineer doing work
directly in support of our community's needs. Please file a bug in
Mozilla's bugzilla and let's see how that plays out.

Thanks!
--joanie