Bug#1053119: orca fails to read file names when navigating some folders in caja+mate menu issues

[Jordan Livesey]

sometimes the bug is reproducible sometimes it isn't, this has been
reported on the orca mailing list at freelists.org and the upstream
maintainer of orca is aware of this

On Wed, Sep 27, 2023 at 10:10 PM Jean-Philippe MENGUAL <jpmengual at debian.org>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Many thanks for this report. 2 questions:
> - does the bug in the file manager appear randomly or do you have a
> reproductible scenario?
> - have you reported too on the orca mailing list?
>
> The next steps for me are to inform upstream of the problem in order to
> get a fix in the definitive release orca 45. But I dont want to do
> duplicate report. My report upstream also will include a debug file to
> help the maintainer.
>
> Thanks for your info
>
> Best regards
>
>
>
> Jean-Philippe MENGUAL
> Debian Developer non uploading
> Community team member
> Accessibility team member
> debian-l10n-french team member
> President of Debian France non-profit organization
>
> Le 27/09/2023 à 19:43, jordan a écrit :
> > Package: orca
> > Version: 45.0-1~bpo12+1
> > Severity: important
> > X-Debbugs-Cc: jordanlivesey9 at gmail.com
> >
> > Dear Maintainer, I've noticed a bug in this version of orca, for some
> reason in the mate desktop, you could be navigating files with the file
> manager and orca sometimes fails to read file names even if the orca curser
> is on it, there is also a bug in the mate menu where orca will just keep
> reading, preferences menu when navigating the submenus of that menu
> >
> > *** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where
> appropriate ***
> >
> >     * What led up to the situation?
> >     * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
> >       ineffective)?
> >     * What was the outcome of this action?
> >     * What outcome did you expect instead?I expected orca to behave
> normally as it usually does when navigating files or the mate menu
> >
> > *** End of the template - remove these template lines ***
> >
> >
> > -- System Information:
> > Debian Release: 12.1
> >    APT prefers stable-updates
> >    APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500,
> 'stable')
> > Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
> > Foreign Architectures: i386
> >
> > Kernel: Linux 6.1.0-12-amd64 (SMP w/6 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
> > Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE
> not set
> > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
> > Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
> > LSM: AppArmor: enabled
> >
> > Versions of packages orca depends on:
> > ii  gir1.2-glib-2.0            1.74.0-3
> > ii  gir1.2-gstreamer-1.0       1.22.0-2
> > ii  gir1.2-gtk-3.0             3.24.37-2
> > ii  gir1.2-pango-1.0           1.50.12+ds-1
> > ii  gir1.2-wnck-3.0            43.0-3
> > ii  gsettings-desktop-schemas  43.0-1
> > ii  gstreamer1.0-plugins-good  1.22.0-5+deb12u1
> > ii  python3                    3.11.2-1+b1
> > ii  python3-brlapi             6.5-7
> > ii  python3-cairo              1.20.1-5+b1
> > ii  python3-gi                 3.42.2-3+b1
> > ii  python3-louis              3.24.0-1
> > ii  python3-pyatspi            2.46.0-2
> > ii  python3-speechd            0.11.5-1~bpo12+1
> > ii  speech-dispatcher          0.11.5-1~bpo12+1
> > ii  xkbset                     0.6-3
> >
> > Versions of packages orca recommends:
> > ii  xbrlapi  6.5-7
> >
> > Versions of packages orca suggests:
> > pn  brltty  <none>
> >
> > -- no debconf information
> >
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