Re: [orca-list] Intermittent focus vs browse mode switching when writing messages in Thunderbird

[Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs igalia com>]

Hey Peter.

Focus mode is meant to be enforced when writing messages in Thunderbird.
If that is not happening, then the two possibilities which spring to my
mind are:

1) Orca does not believe you're writing a message. This can result from
   missing, broken, or otherwise confusing states and/or state-change
   events.

2) Orca doesn't think you're in Thunderbird. This can result from the
   destruction and creation of the accessible associated with the window
   you're in.

The double-presentation of lines in Gecko are due to the destruction and
creation of window accessibles. I'm trying to hack around that in Orca,
but there are still situations where I'm apparently not doing that quite
right.

Could you please send me a full debug.out, captured from the latest
master, and using Thunderbird built against Gtk+2 (having seen your
other message, I don't want to introduce too many variables into the mix).

Thanks!
--joanie

On 02/22/2017 11:55 AM, Peter Vágner wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I can't properly diagnose this one but it's a bit anoying to me so I'll
> try to describe what I think is going on, perhaps you will be able to
> guess what to do about it or suggest me how to understand it.
>
> When replying to a message in Thunderbird, message window appears when I
> press reply button. The cursor is placed in an empty paragraph at the
> top of the message.
> I sometimes tend to press the down arrow key to read a bit of the
> message I'm replying to.
> I think when cursor passes empty paragraphs or some change in the
> formatting it sometimes switches to browse mode so I have to press
> orca+a to switch back to focus mode.
> I think it also happens when pressing ctrl+home or pressing left arrow
> key when the cursor is on the first character in the freshly opened new
> reply window.
> I don't know if this is possible but I would prefer if focus mode was
> enforced when writing messages in thunderbird.
> Might this cause some other side effects?
>
> I think this is a regression since a few days / weeks ago. If it may
> help I'll try downgrading orca to try finding out when this has started
> happening.
>
>
> Greetings
>
> Peter
>
>
>
>
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