[orca-list] several critical issues

[Peter Vágner <pvdeejay gmail com>]

Hello,
I am sorry to bring some of these things up again however I really cant 
find definite answers and according to the list archives some of these 
might even be fixed but they not appear as so for me.

- Verry frequently orca send parts of its keybindings to the active 
aplication. For example while I am chatting in empathy pressing orca+t 
anounces the time but also types letter t into the active input field. 
This happens verry iregularly for me and the only know method on how to 
fix it is that I need to reboot. When this happens with gnome terminal I 
am no longer able to read the window content by using numpad keys 
because orca sends numpad arrows to the terminal. For example this can 
also be observed in thunderbird. While composing an email, I sometimes 
read the whole message before sending it out. So I am usually pressing 
ctrl+home to go to the top and then I am pressing numpad plus for say 
all. What happens is that orca starts reading the text, plus sign gets 
typed to the edit field and cursor stays at the top even if I pause the 
say all.

- While system is busy for example loading a page in firefox, checking 
new mails thunderbird the system is somewhat sluggish even on a verry 
fast Intel I7 procesor machine. I have got used to this fact somehow, 
however sometimes when the system is sluggish and I am pressing keys on 
the keyboard e.g. alt+tabbing to the other windows, trying to use numpad 
keys to read the window content the orca or a keyboard support or I dont 
know what exactly freezes and then I am no longer able to interupt 
speech by pressing a key. For example I do need to wait until the speech 
output is done speaking until I can continue navigation because 
otherwise these two will not sync. Sometimes I can restart orca and 
things get to normal in such a scenario however at times I do need to 
also reboot the system.

- It is verry rare however I can sometimes even get a combination of 
these two if I attempt to ignore the first issue and am trying to make 
the most out of it eventhough the system is buggy.

- handling read only edit fields for example those displayed in empathy 
chat window or even in a system dialogs. I think in the past there was a 
keyboard shortcut to make these readable but I cant find that shortcut 
now nor I can read confortably while these fields are in focus. I need 
to use numpad keys to read the content. It means I am not able to copy 
from such fields as well.
I think this is verry important feature and I do really miss it verry much.

I am using ubuntu 12.04 with all available updates.
I have manually updated to the latest stable version of orca, orca 
3.5.90 some two days before.

In the past I was trying ubuntu and debian with gnome. However I have 
never used it longer than for a few days just to test things out. Now I 
am using this install of ubuntu exclusivelly for some three months and I 
can get my things done quite successfully. The things I have just 
mentioned are just verry anoying sometimes and this is why I have tried 
to post such a detailed message. Maybe you might be able to tell me 
where I am failing and otherwise get me on the right track in order to 
improve the situation for me.

Thanks and greetings

Peter