Re: [orca-list] Some bugs with perhaps possible fixing in master branch

[Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs igalia com>]

Hey Krishnakant.

On 06/02/2012 03:00 AM, Krishnakant Mane wrote:
> Whis this discussion happens,
> I wished to bring to the notice of every one a small irritant which
> should be addressed some day.
> I purposely use the word "irritant " because I don't see this as a bug.
> When text is selected, orca says "selected " and repeats the text as well.
> But when I press ctrl + c, it does not say any thing.
> Should it not tell me some thing like "copied  to clipboard " or some
> thing like that for cut as well?

Periodically this issue gets raised and the reason it gets raised is
thanks to JAWS. <sighs>

A bazillion years ago, when I taught JAWS on a daily basis, I always
found it amusing that JAWS said text was copied to the clipboard when
you pressed Ctrl+C. It didn't matter if text was actually copied or not.
Sometimes it wasn't, but JAWS didn't care: It said what it said in
response to the keybinding. Later on, I believed they fixed that by
actually looking at the clipboard contents before declaring success.

Regardless.... As a sighted user, when I press Ctrl+C I have no idea if
I were successful or not until I go to paste it. Sometimes I paste
nothing. Other times I paste earlier contents. It's a bit of a drag.
Fortunately, there are clipboard utilities. I would rather see those
utilities work with Orca than add monitoring and presenting of the
clipboard to the list of tasks Orca is expected to do.

Take care.
--joanie