Bug#1149227: orca doesn't work properly with icon view in file managers like caja and nemo

moashy mango jordanlivesey9 at gmail.com
Mon Sep 28 16:38:34 BST 2026


Package: orca
Version: 51.0-2~bpo13+1
Severity: important
X-Debbugs-Cc: jordanlivesey9 at gmail.com

Dear Maintainer,
I hace noticed an issue with orca that effects nemo and caja as far as I have tested. when in icon view, orca will not read the file list when you use left and right to navigate. this also effects caja since when you press alt control d orca will not read the desktop or tell you you are on the desktop.
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 I pressed alt control d when logging in. orca should say desktop. icon view, instead, orca did not say that so users like myself don't even know they can navigate their files in the first place unless they switch to list view, but you can't have the desktop in list view
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-- System Information:
Debian Release: 13.7
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 6.12.107+deb13-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages orca depends on:
ii  at-spi2-core                                 2.61.90-1~bpo13+1
ii  dconf-gsettings-backend [gsettings-backend]  0.40.0-5
ii  gir1.2-atspi-2.0                             2.61.90-1~bpo13+1
ii  gir1.2-glib-2.0                              2.84.4-3~deb13u5
ii  gir1.2-gstreamer-1.0                         1.26.2-2
ii  gir1.2-gtk-3.0                               3.24.49-3
ii  gir1.2-pango-1.0                             1.56.3-1
ii  gir1.2-wnck-3.0                              43.2-1
ii  gsettings-desktop-schemas                    48.0-1
ii  gstreamer1.0-plugins-good                    1.26.2-1+deb13u2
ii  init-system-helpers                          1.69~deb13u1
ii  python3                                      3.13.5-1
ii  python3-babel                                2.17.0-1
ii  python3-brlapi                               6.7-3.1+deb13u3
ii  python3-cairo                                1.27.0-2
ii  python3-dasbus                               1.7-2
ii  python3-dbus                                 1.4.0-1
ii  python3-gi                                   3.50.0-4+b1
ii  python3-louis                                3.33.0-1
ii  python3-psutil                               7.0.0-2
ii  python3-setproctitle                         1.3.6-2
ii  python3-speechd                              0.12.1-5~bpo13+1
ii  speech-dispatcher                            0.12.1-5~bpo13+1
ii  xkbset                                       0.8-1

Versions of packages orca recommends:
ii  xbrlapi  6.7-3.1+deb13u3

Versions of packages orca suggests:
pn  brltty              <none>
pn  gpaste-2 | klipper  <none>

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