Re: [orca-list] Please test master

[Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs igalia com>]

Sorry for the multiple posts, but if that IS due to my change to use
AT-SPI2's cache for children, is this an issue with Gtk+ 3.24.24?

Using Gtk+ 3.24.23 and mate-terminal, I cannot reproduce the problem
using the steps you provided to reproduce the problem.

--joanie

On Wed, 2020-12-09 at 18:30 +0100, Joanmarie Diggs wrote:
> 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.
>
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