Re: [orca-list] Please test master with Pidgin

[Jeremy Lincicome <w0jrl1 gmail com>]

Joanie,
I just updated from master. Pidgin is working well for me. I had the same issue that Tyna had where Orca 
wouldn't speak chat room names. As I type this, I am in three IRC chats with lots of activity, and Orca is 
keeping up just fine.

Thanks,
Jeremy

On 09/06/2016 04:50 PM, Joanmarie Diggs wrote:
> Hey all.
>
> One of the problems Tyna reported was due to a hack in Orca designed to
> work around Pidgin's failure to give us needed accessibility events. The
> events which were missing are the events informing Orca what new
> chatroom message text had been inserted (i.e. kinda critical that we
> have those). Unfortunately that hack grinds AT-SPI2 to a halt (and makes
> Orca non-responsive) if the chatroom has a ton of users listed.
>
> In the hopes this sad hack is no longer needed, it's been disabled in
> master. I believe this will solve Tyna's problem. It might also break
> things for everyone. We won't know until you test. You have the power to
> re-enable the hack by adding the following to your
> orca-customizations.py file:
>
> import orca.settings
> orca.settings.enableSadPidginHack = True
>
> Please let me know what you all experience so I can decide whether or
> not the sad hack should be disabled by default or enabled by default.
>
> Thanks!
> --joanie
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