Re: [orca-list] orca, gnome-shell and and alt+tab

[Dave Hunt <ka1cey gmail com>]

Hi,

I was unaware of using the arrows, with Alt still down, to move among 
the multiple windows for an application, but do use 'alt+`' to do this; 
it's handy, now that I understand how it works.  I wonder if, instead of 
the "collapsed, expanded", Orca could announce the number of windows? 
In your example below:  "terminal--2 windows"?





Cheers,





Dave  H.







On 10/07/2012 12:25 AM, Joanmarie Diggs wrote:
> Hey JosÃ.
>
> On 10/06/2012 06:15 AM, Josà Vilmar EstÃcio de Souza wrote:
> > Hi all.
> >
> > In gnome-shell I use alt+tab to switch between applications. No
> > problems if there are applications with only one window, but if there
> > are applications with more than one window, orca announce more than I
> > would like to hear.
>
> GNOME Shell's Alt+Tab functionality allows you to not only switch
> between running applications, but also to switch between the individual
> open windows in that application. The way it works is that applications
> with more than one open window are initially indicated with a downward
> pointing triangle but none of their windows showing. It functions just
> liked a collapsed treeview item. You can expand the collapsed item in
> one of two ways:
>
> 1. With Alt still held down press Down Arrow to expand the item and
>     select the first window.
> 2. With Alt still held down, just sit there (i.e. don't press Tab to
>     move).
>
> That is why when you do this:
>
> > 1: open gedit.
> > 2: open terminal pressing ctrl+alt+t.
> > 3: press ctrl+shift+n to open one more session in terminal.
> > 4. press alt+tab two or three  times to cycle between gedit and terminal.
>
> This happens:
>
> > Note that when orca announce terminal, the announce is followed by the
> > word collapsed, the word terminal and the word expanded.
>
> We can try to filter out the extra word terminal. But I am hesitant to
> not tell you about collapsed and expanded. Like I said, it's just like a
> collapsed treeview item -- well, a collapsed treeview item that you
> leave selected for a bit.
>
> So what would you like to hear instead?
>
> Take care.
> --joanie
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