Re: [orca-list] Open/Libre Office: Structural Navigation added for buttons, check_box, combo_box, entry, heading, list box and table.

[hackingKK <hackingkk gmail com>]

On 09/06/11 15:10, Joanmarie Diggs wrote:
> Hi Dattatray.
>
> > Structural Navigation for Open/Libre Office covers only table_cell.
> Due to a number of bugs in Open/LibreOffice which really need to be
> fixed.
>
> > I have filed an enhancement request #652105 and submitted a patch
> And as I stated there, you're adding a lot of code (not just a small
> work-around hack) because LibreOffice has some bugs which can and should
> be fixed. In addition, manipulating the GUI itself (i.e. scrolling the
> document just to see what objects happen to be present) is not just a
> bad idea, but it might have unintended side effects (due to triggering
> additional AT-SPI events which other ATs used by Orca might be listening
> for).

+1, I used to read some orca code long back and the way it is 
implemented, this is very important to do things in a way that the 
events are as smoothly consumed and passed over.

> > Kindly test the patch and give your valuable feedback.
> I encourage people to do what the spirit moves them to do, including
> testing the patch and providing feedback if they so choose. However, we
> need to get the LibreOffice bugs fixed. Not add a bunch of new code to
> Orca -- which we must then maintain -- to hack around their bug. Doing
> this sort of hacking is, in my opinion, how we got into the situation we
> are with Gecko (poor performance and bugs). Let's not make the problems
> in Orca even worse; let's improve and fix the problems at their root.


Again +1, We should not always think of hacking orca, because one can't 
clap with one hand.
In most cases I found that the problem is generally with the application 
in question.

Happy hacking.
Krishnakant.