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

[Thomas Ward <thomasward1978 gmail com>]

Hi Joani,

On 6/2/12, Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs igalia com> wrote:

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

You are right, and unfortunately because many Linux users come from a
Windows background, including myself, that's a feature many people
have come to expect. I admit even though I realize its not strictly
necessary I am sometimes a bit irritated when I press control+c and
Orca doesn't say that the text was copied, or if I press control+v it
doesn't report if it was pasted into the document. When I was a
Windows user I grew use to that functionality, but after having used
Orca for a while I've finally broken  myself of the habit of expecting
Orca to report the copy and paste status as I realized it wasn't
necessary.

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.

I agree. This seems like a much more practical goal than to have Orca
monitor the clipboard and let the user know if something was or wasn't
copied.  If a user presses control+c it is pretty safe to assume the
text was copied weather Orca says as much or not. However, I suppose
there should be a way to create a custom script that monitors the
keyboard and say "copied to clipboard" or "pasted from clipboard" etc
if people really need that feedback without monitoring the clipboard.

Cheers!