Re: [orca-list] caja: selection of icons doesn't announce with orca

[kendell clark <coffeekingms gmail com>]

hi
This is fantastic news. Have you created a pull request for the spacefm
guys? You should definitely get this murged upstream once the work is
complete. Then we'll have one more file manager we can use, which is
always a good thing.
Thanks
Kendell Clark


Peter Vágner wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I suspect this is caja issue although I have not used caja nor seen
> its codebase yet.
>
> About a month ago I started playing with similar thing for SpaceFM
> file manager. I do have ported ATK support for its icons view from
> PCManFM and I am also looking to possibly implement ATK support for
> the desktop window.
>
> I feel porting this from pcmanfm to spacefm was not a very difficult
> task since spacemanfm shares some bits and pieces with pcmanfm. I
> managed to port the selection handling without issues and I only had
> to do adjustments for accessible name implementation.
>
> This is still a WIP but if anyone is interested I can send a patch.
>
> Greetings
>
> Peter
>
> On 25.02.2016 at 09:51 kendell clark wrote:
> > hi all
> > Steps to reproduce. Open up the caja file manager, which is the
> > filemanager for  the mate desktop. Make sure you're in icon mode by
> > pressing alt+v to enter the view menu and selecting icons. Try to select
> > icons by pressing shift plus the arrow keys. Orca should announce the
> > icons as being selected, but instead it's silent. Tested with both orca
> > stable, 3.18.2 and current orca master. Note that this is the gtk2
> > version. In the gtk3 version, the icon view doesn't speak at all yet.
> > Thanks
> > Kendell Clark
> >
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