[orca-list] Fwd: Re: latest master has problem getting into preferences

[Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs igalia com>]

Forgot to CC the list.

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Subject: Re: [orca-list] latest master has problem getting into preferences
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2015 20:15:07 -0500
From: Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs igalia com>
To: covici ccs covici com

Ah. That's a gnome-shell issue. A debug.out won't help me. And arguably,
it's not an "issue"; it's expected behavior. The run dialog is modal.
Modal dialogs stay on top by definition.

On 11/11/2015 08:13 PM, covici ccs covici com wrote:
> OK, so I discovered that actually the screen with the orca preferences
> came up, but I had to hit escape when in the command window to see it --
> I will send you the debug log separately in case you can do anything,
> but at least I have a workaround -- gnome is a strange environment.
>
> Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs igalia com> wrote:
>
> > Aha, I misunderstood you. In your original message you stated, "if I
> > just login I hear screen reader on, but insert-space does nothing." I
> > did not realize you logged in and then pressed Alt+F2 before
> > Insert+Space. But given what you say here:
> >
> > On 11/11/2015 06:23 PM, covici ccs covici com wrote:
> > > Well, I am not sure what my distributions stable orca is, I have been
> > > using master for quite a while, but I did think that if I typed alt-f2
> > > and then hit orca-space, I would get the parameter screen, but I had to
> > > actually go into an application to do it.
> >
> > You think correctly. I just tried Alt+F2, then Insert+Space using master
> > and wound up in Orca's preferences dialog. Send me the debug.out you
> > capture -- or just look for the traceback that suggests something bad
> > happened with settings or your orca-customizations and provide that
> > here. If that is indeed what's taking place, the traceback should
> > hopefully be pretty obvious.
> >
> > Thanks (and sorry for whatever I broke!)
> > --joanie