Re: [orca-list] Please test master

[Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs igalia com>]

And you're sure that's due to my change to use AT-SPI2's cache for
children?

On Wed, 2020-12-09 at 20:21 +0300, Alexander Epaneshnikov via orca-list 
wrote:
> 09.12.2020 18:01, Joanmarie Diggs пишет:
> > Hey all.
> >
> > I just removed a workaround in Orca master that potentially can
> > impact
> > all applications. We're early enough in the release cycle that I
> > feel
> > comfortable making this change -- as long as we get lots of
> > testing.
> >
> > As for what changed:
> >
> > Until now, Orca was not using AT-SPI2's cache for accessible
> > children.
> > The reason why is because applications and toolkits have
> > historically
> > not been very good about emitting children-changed events when
> > objects
> > were added or removed. But not using this cache comes at a cost:
> > performance. Those of you who noticed how much more performant Orca
> > became with Chromium after I starting using the AT-SPI2 cache for
> > accessible parents might be able to appreciate the difference.
> >
> > Unfortunately, using the cache *might* come at a cost: stale trees
> > due
> > to applications/toolkits failing to emit those needed events.
> > That's
> > why we need testing: to catch those offenders. When we find an
> > offender, hopefully we can get them to fix their bug. If we cannot,
> > we
> > can add a more targeted workaround so non-offending apps/toolkits
> > can
> > be more performant.
> >
> > Anyhoo, please let me know what you find. Thanks!
> > --joanie
> hm i see a problem in mate-terminal.
> 1. run info: read top node.
> 2. press h for tutorial; for me text is garbled. lines too short or 
> mismatched.