[orca-list] an interesting pidgin question

[kendell clark <coffeekingms gmail com>]

hi all

This is a little off topic for this list but it does have to do with 
orca. Does anyone know if pidgin, the instant messenger uses gtk2 or 
gtk3 for it's ui? I ask because when installing mate in antergos, mate 
does not come with accessibility activated, and without that, pidgin is 
inaccessible to orca. However, gtk3 apps are still accessible. Once 
accessibility is turned on, which basically puts 
GTK_MODULES=gail:atk-bridge into gtk-accessibility.sh, pidgin works. In 
mate, the gtk3 version, this isn't needed, orca works with mate out of 
the box, including it's panel and file manager. However, there is one 
small issue with the gtk3 version of caja. Orca does not announce 
selections. When you select multiple files, orca is silent. I'm not sure 
if this is an orca issue or a caja one. This is being sent from 
mellisa's windows box so you'll see windows in the headers. Joanie, I'm 
sad to say that maximizing the browser window didn't improve the 
antergos site much. It did make the download links available, but 
bringing up a list of anything, links, buttons, clickables is painfully 
slow. So slow I thought it had frozen. However, this is with orca 
stable, I haven't tested with master. Should I test with that and report 
back?

Thanks

Kendell Clark