A few more observations on ONeiric and Orca

[Tom Masterson]

I am finding that unity is somewhat unstable but I don't know what is 
affecting it.  I had at least one freeze yesterday that required a system 
reboot as I could not find the particular application that caused it.  I 
am finding quite a number of segfaults in my syslog as well as quite a few 
drm errors and constatnt connect and disconnect of acpid.  I was not 
seeing those under Natty using classic.  I am not seeing those on my other 
aptop using classic with oneiric.  I am going to switch to gnome classic 
on the computer having issues this morning and see if it continues.  I 
don't know if it is just certain packages, unity, orca or (most probably) 
some combination of the above.

I tend to have pidgin and thunderbird open all the time for work and I 
know thunderbird in this iteration has issues.  I also run either eclipse 
or have eclimd running but that is not consistent and does not seem to 
relate (errors happen with or without those.

If anyone has any ideas where to start debugging these issues or where I 
should report them please let me know.  I would like to see this setup 
work.

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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