[orca-list] two issues to report

[kendell clark <coffeekingms gmail com>]

hi all

I'm writing this from mellisa's windows box because of one of the issues 
I have to report. The first, and most serious issue, is with mozilla 
thunderbird. The performance of orca is uniformly slow throughout the 
program, but is particularly slow when composing a message, filling out 
the fields for a new or existing mail account, anywhere it has to echo 
characters. It is to the point where it often freezes, but even when it  
works, it's extremely slow. When it does freeze, you have to either kill 
it, type orca -r or use the keyboard shortcut to first turn it off, it 
does at least announce screen reader off, and then turn it back on 
again. The second, and far less serious issue, is with espeak varients, 
again. If espeak varients, or espeak ng varients are enabled in 
speech-dispatcher, the orca preferences dialog won't open, and orca 
hangs, requiring a restart to fix, only to hang the next time you 
attempt to open the preferences dialog. It could be an at-spi issue, I'm 
not positive, but just reporting it. These issues are both with orca 
master. Should I test stable and report back if the issues occur there? 
There is also an issue of general sluggishness when using mate. It's not 
just my computer, because it happens with both mine and mellisa's 
computer. In particular, navigating the menu of apps gotten to with 
alt+f1 is particularly slow. It does work, it just feels a little slow. 
I'd be happy to generate a debug log if needed.

Thanks
Kendell Clark