Re: [orca-list] two issues to report

[kendell clark <coffeekingms gmail com>]

hi

I should probably add that the thunderbird issue I reported only affects 
thunderbird. Icedove and seamonkey don't suffer from this. Which is odd, 
but I've switched to using that until the problem can be looked into, if 
it can. I know you probably have a lot of thunderbird issues to look 
through, so there's no hurry, I didn't mean to sound as if I was 
complaining.

Thanks

Kendell Clark



On 1/21/2017 11:47 PM, kendell clark wrote:
> 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