Re: [orca-list] When opening a folder with lot of files in it with Orca, it is very slow.

[Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs igalia com>]

We want the bogus name-change events to stop being emitted for the icon
view. Orca is being flooded with these. This presumably should be fixed
in Gtk. I think Hypra filed an issue somewhere....

--joanie

On 04/10/2018 03:20 PM, Fernando Botelho wrote:
> This issue has been a problem for quite some time now. Does anyone know
> how a dev or two could go about figuring a way to fix this?
>
>
> Fernando
>
>
>
> On 04/09/2018 07:08 AM, Nick Wood wrote:
> > On 09/04/18 10:53, Rob wrote:
> > > Nick Wood <nick microlitesoftware co uk> wrote:
> > > > Being able to view a folder in a file manager that has a large
> > > > number of
> > > > items is about as fundamental as it gets.
> > > >
> > > > Its not a problem on Windows with NVDA.  Its not a problem on Mac with
> > > > VoiceOver.  Its not even a problem on Android with Google TalkBack. Its
> > > > only a problem on Linux with Orca.
> > >
> > >
> > > It's fundamental,  all right. But all of those have different
> > > accessibility stacks. So yes, they are completely different from each
> > > other. Each one handles things differently at a low level. So I don't
> > > think it's really fair to compare tasks between two operating systems.
> >
> > Well, whatever the underlying reason, Windows handles it far better
> > than Linux. That's the perspective of an end user who just wants to
> > get their work done.
> >
> > I can plug my girlfriend's Android phone into my Fedora PC and
> > Nautilus will hang whilst trying to display her folder of photos.
> >
> > I can plug the same phone into Windows 7 (running on less powerful
> > hardware) and it is perfectly snappy.
> >
> > Therefore, with my developer hat on, I assume that the underlying
> > subsystems and APIs on Windows have been far better implemented than
> > the GTK/ATK accessibility stack on Linux.
> >
> > That is not a criticism of anyone - particularly those on this list -
> > it is just a fact of life.
> >
> > Perhaps by comparing Linux and Windows more often we can identify the
> > things that Linux is pretty poor at, and eventually try and put them
> > right.
> >
> > However you look at it, the accessibility stack on Linux has some
> > pretty serious performance issues when dealing with large quantities
> > of objects.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Nick
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