Re: [orca-list] Heads up: Major changes coming in Master

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Sorry for the noise, accidentally sent this to Joanmarie instead of the
list so resending.
> What kind of affect will these changes have on legacy GTK 2
 applications? If a bug is introduced that affects GTK2 but not GTK3
 should we still report it or should we assume GTK2 as deprecated?
 Thanks in advance.
 
> On Sat, Nov 2, 2013, at 05:47 PM, Joanmarie Diggs wrote:
> > Hey all.
> >
> > There are some deprecations on the horizon in GNOME Accessibility. The
> > most notable one is that "focus:" events are going away because they are
> > redundant to the newer "object:state-changed:focused" event. This
> > deprecation is a good thing for Orca because it means for any given
> > focus change, we'll have fewer events to process. Getting fewer events
> > means having better performance.
> >
> > I was hoping that this deprecation would be quick and easy in terms of
> > the Orca code. However, I soon discovered that the bulk of Orca's code
> > is depending on "focus:" events and actually has hacks and other code
> > designed to examine, work around, and sometimes ignore events we care
> > about on the basis that a "focus:" event would come along. Believe it or
> > not, this in the long run is also good news because these hacks can be
> > removed and removing them will also give Orca better performance. In
> > addition, in some cases removing the hacks is resulting in bugs being
> > fixed. Hacks are never a good thing....
> >
> > Having said that.... In the short term what this means is that much of
> > Orca's core code is going to have to be changed. That brings me to the
> > following: Given the size of this change and the likelihood that
> > regressions will be introduced, I have made this work my top priority so
> > that it will be done early enough in the 3.11/3.12 cycle so that you can
> > test. I also plan to commit the changes in small bits so that it is
> > easier to pin down what change introduced a regression. For those of you
> > able to test Orca master, please do so now and continue doing so in the
> > weeks to come. (This is not a one-week-only change.)
> >
> > If you discover a bug that is present in Orca master that is not present
> > in Orca 3.10.x, please let me know ASAP. But if the bug is present in
> > both master and 3.10.x, please only let me know if it's a crasher.
> > <smiles> Let's get this uber-change completed first, celebrate the
> > improved performance that will result, and then we can resume normal bug
> > fixing.
> >
> > Thanks in advance with your help with this!
> > --joanie
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