Re: [orca-list] firefox search engine management does not display correctly when changing list order

[Steve Holmes <steve holmes88 gmail com>]

I wonder if this is related to the long broken list situation with Thunderbird’s message lists. It wouldn’t 
surprise me a bit.

On May 28, 2014, at 10:25 AM, B. Henry <burt1iband gmail com> wrote:

> OK, at least for the moment what happens is the list does not update, so if one assumes that one is still 
> working with the 
> search engine that they started working with, i.e. move google up and you see mp3search but are still 
> workin with google 
> things work. This of course becomes unmanageably confusing for those of us with non-stellar memories who 
> are trying to 
> move several items in a long list in some cases, but at least does allow positioning one or two items 
> correctly before 
> pressing OK and checking and continuing with the rest of the job.
> Regards,
> --
> B.H.
>
>
> On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 11:55:05AM -0500, B. Henry wrote:
> > When I am organizing my firefox search engines and press the move up or move down buttons the list does 
> > not update the 
> > order until I hit OK and go back to the search item in tools.  At first I did not think this so bad as I 
> > could count the 
> > number of positions I wanted to move up or down and just press the button that many times. It seemed to 
> > work last night, 
> > but I had a few less search engines in my list, and only was trying to move one at a time. This morning 
> > after adding about 
> > a half dozen new options in the search engine list I tried to put things in to order, but things did not 
> > at all behave 
> > predictably  when I tried to move more than one entry before hitting OK. Even multiple presses of move up 
> > or down on the 
> > same search engine  does not always work reliably. Sometimes after moving an item up or down it appears 
> > twice in the list, 
> > but not always. I have not yet determined if one is actually working with the named item after the first 
> > keypress on up or 
> > down or not. It seemed to last night, but this morning it certainly was not much of the time.
> > I'll try and do a more systematic test later. 
> > Is this a known issue? If not, let me know and I'll file a bug. 
> > I'm using orca 3.13.2 pre, pulled with the orca-git package in the arch aur. There were a few letters and 
> > perhaps numbers 
> > after the version that were shown when I updated, but according to my package manager the package had not 
> > been updated or 
> > changed in over a week, and that was probaby close to a week ago that I tried to force the update. It 
> > would have just been 
> > a reinstall, so I reckon this is however master was a couple ofweeks ago. 
> > --
> > B.H.
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