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

[kendell clark <coffeekingms gmail com>]

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hi
Ah, I thought it might be something like that. Mate must be doing
something similar. I wasn't sure if it was an orca bug or not, but it
looks like it's the settings handler of whatever desktop you have
installed. I'll contact the mate devs to see if they can fix it.
Waiting for gnome 3.14 to hit the arch repos so I can test.
That one was puzzling.
Thanks
Kendell clark


On 09/23/2014 09:03 AM, Joanmarie Diggs wrote:
> 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 _______________________________________________ orca-list
> > mailing list orca-list gnome org 
> > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/orca-list Visit 
> > http://live.gnome.org/Orca for more information on Orca. The
> > manual is at 
> > http://library.gnome.org/users/gnome-access-guide/nightly/ats-2.html
>
> >
The FAQ is at http://live.gnome.org/Orca/FrequentlyAskedQuestions
> > Log bugs and feature requests at http://bugzilla.gnome.org Find
> > out how to help at http://live.gnome.org/Orca/HowCanIHelp
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