[orca-list] Please read if quitting apps makes Orca crash, hang, etc.

[Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs igalia com>]

Hey all.

I still cannot reproduce the problems some of you have, where things
like quitting apps causes Orca to crash, hang, etc. However, if Orca is
running and I kill the registry daemon process manually, Orca does hang.
So I've just committed a change to Orca master which will detect that
condition -- if you have enabled the customization -- and shutdown when
the registry is believed to have crashed.

Yes, we of course still want to know why the registry is crashing,
assuming that's what's happening to you. And if possible, it would be
nice if Orca could recover on your behalf. I'll look into these things
later today after I get some sleep. In the meantime, it would be great
if those of you experiencing the problem could pull master and add the
following to your orca_customizations.py:

import orca.settings
orca.settings.checkForRegistryCrash = True

Then restart Orca.

If, when you reproduce the problem, Orca says goodbye (hopefully) and
quits (the process is not in the list of running processes), then the
problem you are experiencing is almost certainly the AT-SPI2 registry
crashing and not Orca going into some loop somewhere. Knowing whether or
not this is the case will be helpful.

Thanks!
--joanie