Re: [orca-list] Another call for testing master

[Storm Dragon <stormdragon2976 gmail com>]

Hi,
Testing orca in Arch. I don't use Thunderbird so can't comment on it. Everything works great still, as far as 
I can tell. I am using XFCE and everthing is still as accessible as it was before upgrading.
My computer is kind of old and slow. It runs a bit slow even with a light desktop like XFCE. I was amazed at 
the speed boost. There was one spot in the alt+f1 menu where Orca would hang for 5 seconds or more. When it 
jumped from shortcuts, e.g. web browser, mail reader, to the sub menus accessories, games, etc, it would 
always stop talking for a few seconds. This is no longer rhe case. I have tried it several times and there is 
almost no delay now.
General speed is also dramatically improved. I use the nemo file manager because it is fast and accessible. 
The new Orca even shows speed improvements there.
Firefox is still kind of slow, but I think the only fix for that, in my case, may be a new computer.
I'm not sure someone using a newer/faster computer will notice this much of an improvement, but in my case, I 
would say your recent work is nothing short of miraculous.
Thanks
Storm
On Sat, Nov 09, 2013 at 10:47:27PM -0500, Joanmarie Diggs wrote:
> Hey all.
>
> I'm still very much actively working on the uber-event-refactor I
> mentioned to you last week. But I've done quite a bit and today pushed
> some significant changes with respect focus-related events. In particular:
>
> 1. With two exceptions, Orca now ignores all of the old-school "focus:"
>   events. The two exceptions are combo boxes and text views due to bugs
>   in Gtk+. We'll get those bugs fixed in Gtk+, but I didn't want to
>   knowingly break your access in the meantime. Sadly this means that we
>   still have to listen for "focus:" events, but at least we're not
>   wasting nearly so much time on them as we were.
>
> 2. You know that really old "grab focus on ancestor" code for Gecko?
>   It became something we disabled by default for Firefox 3.6 because
>   it was messing things up there. But we kept it enabled for
>   Thunderbird because in the GNOME 2.30 days we could not count on the
>   then-new Gecko being used in distro-shipped versions of Thunderbird.
>   But years have passed since then. And that was at best a sad hack
>   which I'm pretty sure we no longer need. As a result, that code is
>   gone now.
>
> I have worked really, really hard not to break anything. But, again,
> these changes are huge. And I keep failing at becoming perfect. <grins>
> So those of you who are able to test master, please, please do so.
> Whatever regressions I have introduced in master that are not present in
> Orca for GNOME 3.10, I would like to fix properly and not hackily.
>
> Thanks in advance for your help with this!!
> --joanie
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