Re: [orca-list] Folder list in thunderbird is not updated

[Michael Whapples <mwhapples aim com>]

Hello,
This was all working fine before I did the upgrade to gnome 3.0 stuff. 
When I did the upgrade to gnome 3.0 this was when I did the switch to 
at-spi2 from the corba at-spi. As far as I know thunderbird has not been 
updated since I did the upgrade of gnome stuff.

Would it still be of value for me to try with the corba at-spi?

Michael Whapples
On 01/-10/37 20:59, Trevor Saunders wrote:
> On Tue, May 03, 2011 at 09:59:34AM -0400, Joanmarie Diggs wrote:
> > Hi Michael.
> >
> > Quick response without having had the opportunity to look into it.
> >
> > Orca doesn't cache information between events; just for the current
> > event. In other words, if we get say a focus: event, we'll get the
> > details for speech, and cache those details for braille. But the very
> > next event that comes in, regardless of its type, will cause us to dump
> > that cache. So, for all intents and purposes, Orca doesn't cache
>   However libatspi and so pyatspi does cache, and uses events to update
>   said cache.
>
> > information. Therefore, if Orca is reporting outdated information, my
> > guess would be that Thunderbird is providing us with outdated
> > information.
>   Other possibilities include at-spi2 haveing a bug that allows caches to
>   get out of sync, or thunderbird failing to emit an event libatspi
>   listens for to update its cache.  I'd be interested to know if this
>   issue is present with at-spi1, especially since I don't remember seeing
>   this before.
>
> Trev
>
> > Creating a simple pyatspi listener in python would be a way to test what
> > Orca has access to.
> >
> > Hope this helps.
> > --joanie
> >
> > On Tue, 2011-05-03 at 11:39 +0100, Michael Whapples wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > > I am using thunderbird 3.3a3 and I have noticed that the tree view
> > > showing folders can become outdated with orca. Here are some examples:
> > > 1. The number of new messages next to a folder is not updated, orca was
> > > still reporting one new message in my inbox when I had removed all
> > > messages (IE. the inbox entry read "inbox (1)").
> > > 2. I have multiple email accounts on my computer, should I go to the
> > > first one and collapse it and then expand it again, the first folder is
> > > still reported as the second email account name.
> > >
> > > Does anyone have a clue what might be causing the bug? I am using orca
> > > 3.0.1, at-spi2 (dbus) and as I said thunderbird 3.3a3.
> > >
> > > Michael Whapples
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