Re: [orca-list] Sluggishness in flat review

[Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs igalia com>]

Hey Justin.

It looks like updating braille is taking longer than ideal. That I can 
reproduce here. Would it be possible for you to temporarily disable 
braille in Orca and see if the sluggishness goes away for you?

--joanie

On 4/14/20 17:39, Justin Pospical wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Still running Orca from master, per my original post. I've attached 
> debug output. Some of the processing times for generation are above 
> 0.2s, is that typical? It's a small amount of time, but pretty 
> noticeable here. Also, there appears to be an issue communicating with 
> brltty, even though it's running, I'm in the brlapi group, and am 
> getting Braille output. Not sure what's going on there, but I wonder if 
> I'm missing a needed package.
>
> Justin
>
> On Mon, Apr 13, 2020, at 17:58, Joanmarie Diggs wrote:
> > Hi Justin.
> >
> > Like José, I'm not seeing any sluggishness with the situation you
> > describe. In fact, Orca's quite responsive for me. If you're able to
> > test Orca master, that would be great. Failing that, mind capturing me a
> > full debug.out so that I can see where Orca is spending extra time?
> > https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Orca/Debugging
> >
> > Thanks!
> > --joanie
> >
> > On 4/13/20 15:12, Justin Pospical via orca-list wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > Environment: Arch, Orca master, and mate-terminal 1.24, though I've
> > > experienced this with other terminals.
> > > Steps to reproduce:
> > > 1. In a terminal, run:
> > > echo
> > > 
> > 'https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Google-Kexec-Windows-Linux' 
> >
> > > 
> > <https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Google-Kexec-Windows-Linux> 
> >
> > > (hope my client preserves the apostrophes).
> > > 2. In flat review, navigate up one line, to the URL.
> > > 3. Move through it by character.
> > > There is a small but very (to me) noticeable lag before each character
> > > is announced. This is a comparatively mild example, and it doesn't
> > > happen at all with some text; I've been looking for a string to 
> > reliably
> > > reproduce this for a long time. When a command has a lot of output, the
> > > lag sometimes happens when moving by word/line as well. This is one of
> > > the few remaining issues that keeps me from switching to Linux
> > > full-time. Can anything be done about this? If not, apologies for 
> > the noise.
> > >
> > > Justin
> > >
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> > https://help.gnome.org/users/gnome-help/stable/a11y.html
> > >