On Sat, 01 Apr 2017 13:54:17 +0300 Mika Hanhijärvi<mik...@gmail.com> wrote: > Package: synaptic > Version: 0.84.2 > Severity: grave >
Hi Mika, Sorry to hear that synaptic is causing you issues. I am CC'ing the accessibility list hoping that they might have an insight to what is happening. I have quoted the original mail in full below for their sake. Thanks, ~Niels (PS: Please CC me on replies if you need my attention. I am not the maintainer of synaptic) On Sat, 01 Apr 2017 13:54:17 +0300 Mika Hanhijärvi<mik...@gmail.com> wrote: > Synaptic often freezes the Orca screen reader so that Orca speaks nothing > until > Synaptic is closed. The same happens on both of my laptops running Debian > Stretch. > > I am blind so I have to use computer using Orca screen reader. It happens wery > often that when I e.g click the Reload button in Synaptic, or select Reload > from the Synaptic menu, then Orca screen reader stops speaking. Synapticdoes > not freeze the whole desktop, just Orca. This problem seems to happen > randomly, sometimes it happens sometimes it does not. When Synaptic has > finished reloading the package database information Orca may start speaking > again, but often it does not. If it does not then I have to close the Synaptic > by pressing alt + F4 after which Orca starts to speak again. > > It also happens sometimes that if I have reloaded repository package database > information and click Mark all updades after that then Orca stops speaking. On > my second laptop it currently happens almost every time that Orca stops > speaking when I click the Mark all updates or select it from the menu. Tkhat > also seems to happen randomly, sometimes it happens sometimes not. > > I have not noticed any problems like that when I have used other applications, > this happns only when I am using Synaptic. > > As I said I have two laptops running Debian Stretch and both have the same > problems. Both laptops have been upgraded from Jessie to Stretch. The first > laptop was almost clean Jessie installation before it was upgraded to Stretch, > it still has wery little apps installed. > > I am using Gnome desktop. I am blind so it is difficult for me to try to > figure > out what is wrong. I I have used both espeak and espeak-ng speech synthetisers > with Orca screen reader, the same problem exists notmatter which of those is > in > use. > > [...]
