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

[Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs igalia com>]

Hi Kendell.

It's not an Orca bug. Orca is getting flooded with 1000 events (1 per
file). Orca is processing them quite quickly. But it shouldn't be
getting the events in question in the first place.

--joanie

On 03/27/2018 03:19 PM, kendell clark wrote:
> hi
>
> I can confirm that orca is very slow when opening folders with lots of
> files, regardless of file manager. This urgently needs to be fixed,
> although I'm not sure this is an orca bug, it might be an at-spi or file
> manager, EG caja or nautilus, bug.
>
> Thanks
>
> Kendell Clark
>
>
>
> On 03/27/2018 08:36 AM, Joanmarie Diggs wrote:
> > Can you please try the following without running Orca: Launch
> > Accerciser, set its event monitor to listen for
> > object:property-change:accessible-name events, and then open the folder
> > with all those files? Looks to me like Orca is being flooded by AT-SPI2
> > events. And the name isn't actually changing on all those files.
> >
> > --joanie
> >
> > On 03/27/2018 09:18 AM, Alex ARNAUD wrote:
> > > Hello all,
> > >
> > > A user has reported to me this issue with these folders with lot of
> > > data.
> > >
> > > Environment:
> > > - Debian sid
> > > - Caja 1.20 / Nautilus 3.26.2
> > > - Orca master
> > >
> > > 1) Create a folder and execute in it this script to create 1000 files in
> > > the directory
> > > > #!/bin/bash
> > > >
> > > > for i in {1..1000}
> > > > do
> > > >      touch file$i.txt
> > > > done
> > > 2) Launch Caja or Nautilus (here in icon mode)
> > > 3) Choose the directory with the 1000 files
> > >
> > > Result: Orca will takes too much time to respond.
> > > Expected result: Orca should be as reactive as the file manager is
> > > without it.
> > >
> > > Best regards.
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