Re: [orca-list] a suggestion to improve orca's key learn mode

[Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs igalia com>]

Hi Kendell.

Orca is not presenting these keys because Orca is not being told about
the key presses and releases via AT-SPI2. From a little testing, I
discovered that this is only if the media key in question is already
bound to a function. If you unbind a key in gnome-control-center (I
tried it with Calculator), then Orca presents that key in learn mode
as you suggest it should. Of course, then the key doesn't launch the
Calculator.... Anyhoo, this is not something I can fix in Orca. My
guess is that it is gnome-settings-daemon that is consuming the event.
So I filed a bug against gnome-settings-daemon:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=737181

--joanie

On 09/23/2014 12:56 AM, kendell clark wrote:
> hi all I've noticed a couple of very minor issues in orca's
> keyboard learn mode, gotten to by pressing orca+h. It works on
> regular keys, such as letters, numbers, punctuation, etc. IT also
> used to work on special multimedia keys such as next track,
> previous track, mute, suspend, etc. Recently, I'm not so sure how
> recently though, it stopped working. Instead of trapping those keys
> and speaking them, it passes them through to the desktop, which
> will often launch a web browser, play a song, etc. Would it be
> possible to trap these keys and announce their names? This works in
> gnome 3.12, but doesn't anymore in mate. Although, in gnome the
> homepage key doesn't get trapped, it launches a web browser. I hope
> I'm making sense. When I get a new keyboard, teh first thing I do
> is start orca's learn mode so I can see what multimedia keys it
> has. My newest one has a suspend key where the next track used to
> be on my old one, and when I hit it my computer went to sleep. THis
> isn't a huge issue, but I was just wondering if it would be
> possible. I believe this also happens with the print screen key, 
> but I don't use it so can't prove it. ALl other keys seem to work 
> fine, just the multimedia keys. Can't wait to try the new gnome
> 3.14 when it's released Thanks Kendell clark 
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