Re: [orca-list] Don't upgrade to GNOME 3.30 or Gtk+ 3.23 for now

[John Covici <covici ccs covici com>]

I was up to 3.24. something, I wonder if this is why orca seemed so
broken?  I am downgrading now and we shall see what happens.

On Tue, 18 Sep 2018 07:52:52 -0400,
Joanmarie Diggs wrote:
> Hey all.
>
> I suspect that a couple of recently-reported problems in GNOME 3.30 are
> due to a change made to Gtk+ which, as a side effect, caused us to stop
> getting much-needed window-related events. Orca uses those now-missing
> events to keep track of what window you're in.
>
> Reliably and performantly hacking around this issue in Orca might prove
> challenging. Plus bugs have been open by Samuel against gnome-shell and,
> MATE to resolve this issue where it should be resolved. So, for now, as
> I stated in the subject, don't upgrade to GNOME 3.30. And don't upgrade
> Gtk+ to 3.23, where the change in question can be found.
>
> Sorry for the inconvenience!
> --joanie
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