Re: [orca-list] While we're all tossing out our favorite Orca issues... :)

[Nolan Darilek <nolan thewordnerd info>]

Ah, fair enough. I assumed the originator of the event was a known 
quantity, at least on GNOME/Unity/other stock desktops, and that the fix 
would be simple. Thanks for the clarification.


On 02/25/2016 08:22 PM, Joanmarie Diggs wrote:
> Hi Nolan.
>
> It may be more difficult than you think:
> 1. Lack of keyboard events for media keys:
>     https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=737181
> 2. Lack of window:activate events when the thing pops up:
>     (I thought I filed this, but I'm not seeing it)
> 3. Lack of other events by which to reliably identify the volume popup
> 4. When the volume thing goes away, we get events which look like normal
>     focus changes.
>
> So Orca doesn't know you pressed anything. Orca has no way of knowing
> you are in the volume popup. All Orca knows is that you are now in Foo.
> It doesn't know why. But 90% of the time (if not more), failure for Orca
> to tell you you are in Foo would be seen as a bug. For instance, the
> sorts of events we get are not unlike a chat app popping up a new window
> because a buddy just sent you a message.
>
> --joanie
>
> On 02/25/2016 08:47 PM, Nolan Darilek wrote:
> > This one seems like it'd be so easy to fix that it probably wouldn't
> > warrant an issue/debug.out, but I can provide one if needed.
> >
> > On every single Linux computer I've had, Orca speaks the window title
> > when I use the media keys to adjust volume. This might have been useful
> > 10 or so years ago, but every desktop I've had over the last 5 years or
> > so makes a slight pop to let you know what the volume is set to, and
> > Orca is usually loud enough that it makes adjusting volumes a noisy affair.
> >
> > I think I read recently that there's a graphical popup when volume is
> > changed, and I'm wondering if that's generating an accessibility event
> > causing Orca to speak. Wondering if the default script might be tweaked
> > to ignore this event so we just get the pops our desktops make?
> >
> > Thanks.
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