Re: [orca-list] Flat Review passing keystrokes to applications

["Milton" <milton tomaatnet nl>]

In Ubuntu 12.04 when using flat review in Groups and Accounts for to set an 
account for a new user, it crashes. Hopefully this also will be solved? Many 
thanks.
Milton
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joanmarie Diggs" <jdiggs igalia com>
To: <orca-list gnome org>
Sent: Friday, November 09, 2012 3:17 PM
Subject: Re: [orca-list] Flat Review passing keystrokes to applications


> On 11/09/2012 08:54 AM, Dave Hunt wrote:
> > I notice this in GNOME/Orca 3.4.2; it's especially prominent in terminal
> > apps, but, that's where I use flat review the most.  Since I use laptop
> > layout, I can end up with a bunch of capital I and/or capital U
> > characters in input lines.  The passing-through doesn't happen all the
> > time, or immediately on start of the terminal.  I'm going to give the
> > new LXDE Sonar a try; will it happen there, as well?
>
> My guess would be "yes, it is there as well."
>
> When keys occasionally bleed through (as opposed to "are reliably passed
> through") it is not a script or environment issue. It is also likely not
> an Orca bug (though it might be). The reason I say this is because
> Orca's decision w.r.t. passing keys through to the app tends to be
> pretty consistent.
>
> A while back a very nice change was made to AT-SPI2 which prevented lock
> ups such as Orca hanging your system or an app hanging Orca. A side
> effect of this was the introduction of key bleed through because AT-SPI2
> now times out when an app (Orca or the app being accessed) seems
> unresponsive. Mike Gorse greatly improved upon this within AT-SPI2 and
> got rid of most of the bleed through. However, some clearly still remains.
>
> Because the bleed through seems primarily to be in flat review, my guess
> is that building up the flat review context is taking longer than the
> AT-SPI2 timeout value. As such, improving the flat review code's
> performance should improve this issue. I already made one change just
> the other day which might help. That will go into the upcoming 3.6.2
> release. And I will be analyzing and cleaning up the rest of the flat
> review code.
>
> Take care.
> --joanie
>
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