Re: [orca-list] Nautilus slowness update #2 (was update #1)

[Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs igalia com>]

Hi Peter.

I'll take a look at the issues you mention below. But regarding the
initial load and arrowing in the list view, this is also performant for
me. Is it not for you?

--joanie

On 04/24/2018 07:24 AM, Peter Vágner wrote:
> Hello,
>
> It's very important to add that this is so far only working when the
> nautilus is set to icons view (not list view).
> Traditionally I am used to use list view so I can navigate over the
> files by using up and down arrow key however when icons view is now
> super responsive as opposed to the list view I can change my habit and I
> will use left and right arrow keys to navigate in a list of icons.
> Navigation over the file icons is fantastic and instantaneous even when
> browsing huge folders (I've tested with /usr/bin and /usr/lib and
> /usr/include on my system).
> Unfortunatelly there might be more severe accessibility issues with
> nautilus.
> - When changing folders rapidly (e.g. by pressing alt+left or alt+right
> arrow keys) orca will sometimes freeze and I need to restart it in order
> to get it to work again.
> - The same is very likelly to happen when using quick search feature
> e.g. type a few letters of a filename, browse the list of icons and hit
> esc key to dismiss the search. Sometimes orca will freeze.
> - A lot of buttons and radio buttons found when expanding Actions menu
> is not keyboard accessible at all. Unfortunately using orca
> functionality to emulate mouse clicks is not working there either. The
> concrete feature I am missing is ability to sort the list of files.
> - While I am at it activating orca's flat review in the nautilus main
> window is very very slow, it takes a few seconds here. I suspect there
> is a broken accessible objects hierarchy somewhere.
> - In the nautilus preferences window there are some unlabeled controls
> e.g. three comboboxes on the View tab that allow displaying extra
> details for files in the icons view.
> - Those extra details are not accessible to orca. Displaying more than
> the file name and file type is possible in the list view however it
> looks as if list view display has not received this accessible event
> cleanup and orca is more likelly to freeze for me when using nautilus in
> the list view.
> - When nautilus is switched to list view buttons for sorting the list
> are not displayed or at least I can't find them when expanding actions
> menu.
> - When nautilus is set to list view activating orca flat review takes
> even longer and it's very likelly to completelly freeze for me.
>
> Greetings
>
> Peter
>
>
>
> Dňa 23.04.2018 o 21:35 Joanmarie Diggs napísal(a):
> > Update #2: I provided a solution for the name-changed issue and the
> > maintainer merged it into Nautilus master and said he'd do so for the
> > stable (GNOME 3.28) branch as well. So Nautilus users should be set next
> > time there's a stable release.
> >
> > --joanie
> >
> > On 04/23/2018 12:55 PM, Joanmarie Diggs wrote:
> > > Hey all.
> > >
> > > A little while ago I proposed a fix for the children-changed event spam
> > > in Nautilus. That fix was just merged into Nautilus master as well as
> > > the stable (GNOME 3.28) branch. I still have to figure out the
> > > name-changed solution, but will do that next.
> > >
> > > --joanie
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