[orca-list] possible bug, orca refuses to speak any apps or incoming text if not started with the desktop in focus

[kendell clark <coffeekingms gmail com>]

hi all
I've just noticed a weird bug, I think it's a bug, in the latest orca mster, although it's been present  
since at least 
orca v3.12, possibly earlier. If speech-dispatcher crashes, which sometimes happens when using alsa, I have a 
keyboard 
shortcut that kills orca, speech-dispatcher and then runs orca --replace to restart it. If I do this with 
anything but 
the desktop in focus, orca starts, but then will not read any apps, text files, anything. It says welcome to 
orca, and 
then silence. If I then focus the desktop, hiding all windows and then restart orca again, it says desktop 
frame, after 
which everything works. I don't have any debug output to demonstrate this, but I can get it if anyone needs 
it. This is 
a very strange one and I'm not sure how to fix it.
There's also another bug, this one relating to the settings changes. If you restart orca with a different 
profile 
loaded, it will apply the new profile, but will keep the speech rate from the old profile.
Opening the orca preferences dialog and pressing the ok button reloads everything perfectly.

Thanks
Kendell clark