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

[Michael Whapples <mwhapples aim com>]

Thanks for the reply. I have given it some thought. While I cannot make 
any meaning from an active window giving another window:activated event, 
I feel the fix I have proposed is not the correct way to solve it.

My reasoning for this is that I think other mozilla products are giving 
unwanted window:activated events, some which may not even be possible to 
recognise as false information. As an example, I notice when using 
firefox (using new windows instead of tabs), if I have firefox open on a 
page, then go to gnome-terminal and launch firefox with another page 
that firefox sends a window:activated event but gnome terminal really 
seems to still have focus (alt+f4 will close gnome-terminal).

I will report these issues to mozilla tomorrow. Any thoughts whether 
these may be related issues?

Michael Whapples
On 26/11/10 22:55, Joanmarie Diggs wrote:
> 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