Re: [orca-list] ot: eclipse/egit bug

[Eric Williams <ericwill redhat com>]

You can file them both as SWT bugs, and if one of them isn't SWT I can 
just move it to the appropriate component.

Eric

On 11/8/18 1:42 PM, Michał Zegan wrote:
> Do you think *both* are swt bugs? someone has commented on the previous
> one stating that it may be a platform bug, so... possible
>
> W dniu 08.11.2018 o 16:35, Eric Williams pisze:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Thank you for the detailed response, please file a ticket against SWT at
> > bugs.eclipse.org and add me as CC so I can take a look.
> >
> > Eric
> >
> > On 11/7/18 5:42 PM, Michał Zegan wrote:
> > > Okay!
> > > So it seems this may be unrelated, so I will describe everything here:
> > > I have switched to gtk3 now. In particular tried to use a staging view.
> > > This time i could see both the staged and unstaged panes and what is in
> > > them. I couldn't add the removed file to index, but that is probably an
> > > egit bug unrelated to all this... However:
> > > - When I go to staging view, I land at a text field, probably to type a
> > > commit message. I then press shift+ctrl+tab to jump out of it, for
> > > example to "amend previous commit" or to "skip commit" depends if I am
> > > committing or rebasing. If I keep pressing shift+tab from that moment,
> > > after some time focus will be locked, unable to move in both directions.
> > > However, if I switch views back and forth, then I land again at the
> > > commit message textbox and can navigate again.
> > > There is one other bug that I have never reported though. This happens
> > > in other situations at times too, but if you want to reproduce it, you,
> > > for example:
> > > - go to console view,
> > > - press open console, select anything from the menu like script pad
> > > console or just anything.
> > > Alternatively you could do something like pressing remove from launch
> > > (if applicable), close console (if applicable), like anything that seems
> > > to change the view structure. I even managed to trigger something like
> > > this now in the staging view when pressing a button to remove some file
> > > from git index.
> > > This second bug manifests itself by focus being completely locked out.
> > > In this specific case I cannot do anything except accessing menus. That
> > > includes inability to switch views back and forth. This bug is long
> > > standing and, from what I know, linux specific, never happened for me on
> > > windows when I was using eclipse there. To recover you have to click on
> > > something like a package explorer with flat review. In the presence of
> > > the flat review problems in 4.9/gtk3 the only way to do this is to
> > > (semi-randomly) click with a physical mouse.
> > >
> > >
> > > W dniu 07.11.2018 o 23:11, Michał Zegan pisze:
> > > > The reason I am using gtk2 still is the flat review bug. The egit
> > > > staging view is not the only place where one can get stuck, and the only
> > > > way to rescue is to actually use flat review. I do not know if such
> > > > things happen on gtk-3 too, however, and I can look for this.
> > > >
> > > > W dniu 07.11.2018 o 21:51, Eric Williams pisze:
> > > > > Does it happen on GTK3? GTK2 support was recently removed in 4.10...so
> > > > > GTK2 won't work in the 4.10 release.
> > > > >
> > > > > Eric
> > > > >
> > > > > On 11/6/18 3:11 PM, Michał Zegan wrote:
> > > > > > This bug is long present, eclipse is current latest, using still
> > > > > > swt in
> > > > > > gtk2 mode. egit 5.0
> > > > > >
> > > > > > W dniu 06.11.2018 o 21:09, Eric Williams via orca-list pisze:
> > > > > > > Hi,
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > On 11/6/18 2:55 PM, Michał Zegan wrote:
> > > > > > > > Hello,
> > > > > > > > I have reported this:
> > > > > > > > https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=540854
> > > > > > > > Can anyone using eclipse:
> > > > > > > > - confirm if this bug is known,
> > > > > > > > - say if there are any in-eclipse workarounds to use the staging
> > > > > > > > view,
> > > > > > > > - say if, when clicked on any entry in staged/unstaged changes pane,
> > > > > > > > orca will present anything (it is probably something for someone
> > > > > > > > sighted
> > > > > > > > to verify as I have no way of finding this)...
> > > > > > > > And for the record, i am *not* committing anything. I am doing a big
> > > > > > > > interactive rebase and trying to remove some files from index,
> > > > > > > > something
> > > > > > > > only stage view can probably do in this specific case, and I
> > > > > > > > would like
> > > > > > > > to do this without resorting to manual git command usage, ofc I
> > > > > > > > can do
> > > > > > > > that too if really needed.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > What version of Eclipse are you using, and what is your OS + GTK3
> > > > > > > version?
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Thanks,
> > > >
> > > >
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Eric Williams
Software Engineer - Eclipse/SWT Team
Red Hat