Re: [orca-list] libreoffice calc issues

[Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs igalia com>]

Hey Kendell.

It looks like we're getting absolutely flooded with
object:state-changed:sensitive for Calc menu items when you first launch
Calc. I can try to ignore those events as they come in, which might
improve things a bit, but we'll need Calc to not flood us.

--joanie

On 06/09/2016 06:41 AM, kendell clark wrote:
> hi all
> Someone recently emailed the orca list saying they were having issues
> with libreoffice calc with ubuntu 14.04 and orca 3.20. I can confirm
> that the same issue exists in orca master, but it seems worse hear.
> Steps to reproduce. Open up a blank libreoffice calc spreadsheet. In a1,
> enter some text by typing. I usually type something like "coffee" or
> "tea" just to see if orca will echo the keystrokes. In this case, orca
> doesn't echo the keystrokes and in fact, is unresponsive for several
> seconds. It does come back so it hasn't frozen completely, but the text
> also doesn't appear in the cell a1 either. It doesn't seem to show up at
> all, at least not that I can find. Something seems to have showed up in
> the spreadsheet however, because when you close libre office you get the
> usual "save document?" prompt. Speaking of libreoffice spreadsheet, is
> it possible to use it as accounting software? I'm considering replacing
> gnucash with libreoffice calc, since gnucash has accessibility issues
> that don't ever seem likely to be solved. The gnucash team will tell you
> quite flatly that no one on their dev team knows anything about
> accessibility and they're not interested in learning or helping fix
> accessibility issues, go use some other piece of software.
> Thanks
> Kendell Clark
>
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