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

[Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs igalia com>]

Hi Peter.

I'm still not done tackling your full shopping list, but let me give you
an update:

> - 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.

This will need to be addressed in Nautilus and Caja. Still on my list.

> - 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.

Ditto.

> - A lot of buttons and radio buttons found when expanding Actions menu
> is not keyboard accessible at all. Unfortunately using orca

Really? They all are accessible to me. Which ones in particular?

> functionality to emulate mouse clicks is not working there either. 

Mouse clicks with Orca is working for me. I'm using X and not Wayland.
Which are you using?

> concrete feature I am missing is ability to sort the list of files.

That's not physically in the actions menu. But you can sort the list by
shift tabbing one to move up from the list. The individual column
headers are not keyboard navigable. Yes they should be. In the meantime,
flat review and clicking via Orca works for me. Again, at least in X.
Specifically, I do:

1. Shift Tab
2. Numpad 5 to read the current sort-by column (that's where focus goes)
3. Numpad 4 to move left and Numpad 6 to move right amongst the columns
4. Numpad / to click on the column header under flat review to sort

At this point, the sort happens and Orca announces "rows reordered".

> - 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.

Actually, at least in the case of Nautilus, it was an Orca issue. Now
fixed. In the case of Caja, there is one additional issue which is
either in Caja or in AT-SPI2. I need to debug further.

Given that you use Nautilus and I assume from your message are using
Nautilus master, mind trying the above with it and Orca master and X?

In the meantime, moving on:

> - 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.

Confirmed. Needs to be fixed in Nautilus. Will try to get to that tomorrow.

> - 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.

Not looked into yet. Will try to get to that tomorrow.

> - 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.

As I indicated above, I can't find that in the actions menu either. Only
in the column headers. Thus not an Orca issue.

> - When nautilus is set to list view activating orca flat review takes
> even longer and it's very likelly to completelly freeze for me.

As I indicated above, this is fixed for me in Orca master.

Please let me know what you find. Thanks!
--joanie