Re: [orca-list] Evolution comments

["Milton" <milton tomaatnet nl>]

In the past it was not possible to get to attached files with Orca in 
Evolution. So that was my main reason to switch to Thunderbird. Is this 
possible now?
Milton

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Whapples" <mwhapples aim com>
To: "Joanmarie Diggs" <jdiggs igalia com>
Cc: <orca-list gnome org>
Sent: Sunday, November 20, 2011 5:38 PM
Subject: Re: [orca-list] Evolution comments


> Hello,
> Firstly on the wiki information, I would say certainly mark it as 
> historic, there may be still be small bits of use (EG. on the evolution 
> page it states what will help declutter the UI which may be helpful). If 
> you are getting hints saying gnome projects should be cleaning out old 
> information from their wikis then may be let stuff that is certainly all 
> historic and of no current use go.
>
> Now to evolution: I don't think I can create a good test case causing the 
> crashes, it just seems to be extremely frequently and almost anything and 
> everything can crash it. Probably the most extreme case is even within the 
> warning message stating that evolution is not my current email client, 
> would I like to make it the default, I got a crash just tabbing to the no 
> button (getting a crash then determines that it was certainly the no 
> button I was heading for). On a larger scale, I had probably in the region 
> of ten or more (probbly more, certainly not less) crashes just simply 
> removing an email account and adding a new account. These seemed to occur 
> at about any stage and really I could not say there was anything 
> consistent about what was going on which might have caused the crashes.
>
> Is it still worth me submitting a bug report even though I cannot create a 
> test case to reproduce the crash (about the only thing I could say is, try 
> using evolution with orca running, you will probably get a crash within 
> 120 seconds, probably much less). Also should this report go to evolution 
> or orca, even if orca is doing something bad, I would imagine evolution 
> should try and protect a bit better against bad accessibility calls, 
> however I doubt its orca as I said even simple tasks like tabbing in a 
> basic dialog (the default email client warning dialog) crashed evolution.
>
> Michael Whapples
> On -10/01/37 20:59, Joanmarie Diggs wrote:
> > Hey Michael, all.
> >
> > On 11/19/2011 03:46 PM, Michael Whapples wrote:
> >
> > > First problem, evolution keeps crashing on me: I am not fully sure
> > > what causes it but even just moving around the folder/account tree
> > > view can crash it (not all the time but fairly frequently. Might
> > > Orca be doing something here to cause such a crash?
> >
> > Evolution off and on crashes on me even without Orca running. Although I
> > do have accessibility enabled all the time. Based on what you said and
> > what I've seen, I'm guessing something accessibility-related is making
> > Evolution unhappy. <frown>
> >
> > > The Orca wiki information on accessible applications seem to be
> > > fairly dated (eg. it refers to firefox 3). The evolution page on the
> > > Orca wiki said very little related to the issues I am having.
> >
> > I'm quite tempted to remove -- or otherwise preface with a "historical
> > document" note -- much of that content. Thoughts? Objections??
> >
> > > Anything I can do to improve things?
> >
> > As usual, full steps to reproduce a crash reliably along with a
> > debug.out and a bug report are always quite helpful.
> >
> > Thanks in advance! Take care.
> > --joanie
>
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