A few more observations on ONeiric and Orca

[Tom Masterson]

When I switched to to classic on my work computer using the proposed 
at-spi-registry (at least I assume that is what is being used as I have 
that in my package sources) I am getting immediate at-spi-registry 
segfault messages and while suprisingly enough orca still reads my desktop 
itself it does not read any menus or otherwise.  I can not restart orca.

Help please.

Tom

On Fri, 21 Oct 2011, Jacob Schmude wrote:

> Hi all,
> Further to my previous observations, I have a few more.
> 1. Many of the toggle buttons in system settings are simply labeled "switch" and one must use Orca's review to see what exactly they do. Some examples are the
> Bluetooth visibility and enabled toggles, and the toggle settings in the Online Accounts preference page. This is a minor issue for the most part, however there seem
> to be random times when Orca's flat review will not work in these windows. If I discover a pattern to this, I'll let everyone know.
> 2. There seems to be no first letter navigation in the menu bar, that is, for any app that integrates with Unity's global menu bar. Is there a way to navigate these
> menus efficiently when you have a large one, such as my bookmarks in Firefox. I can't get first letter navigation to work nor does it seem to have a
> highlight-as-you-type mode akin to OS X. The only way I've been able to navigate these menus is with arrow keys alone. Has anyone else noticed this? Is there
> something I'm missing?
> 3. Sometimes Orca freezes and I have to manually go to a console and kill it. This has been an issue with Orca for ages, but I'd really hoped at-spi2/dbus would put a
> permanent end to it. It wouldn't be so bad in and of itself, but it seems to freeze the entire desktop along with it (meaning that I can't just hit my shortcut key to
> get it back), and it's not even considerate enough to log any relevant debug output  even when the debug level is set to full :-(.
> 
> Anyone else seeing these or have any advice?
> 
> Thanks
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