Hi Michael,

Some events in itself may be sufficient to reflect a particular user action
> (e.g. text-caret-move notifies that the user is moving the cursor). But
> it is the case only if there are no other events. If text-caret-move
> comes in conjunction with text-change event it is a completely different
> situation implying that the user is typing a new text.
>

Ah ok, I get what you mean now. Yes, it does seem pretty pointless
listening for a caret-moved event and a text changed event. There's a
similar vibe with focused and selected, now you mention it. Like obviously
if something is focused then it is going to be selected too. In the g-s
magnifier (javascript) that gets dealt with like so:

https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-shell/tree/js/ui/magnifier.js#n715
https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-shell/tree/js/ui/focusCaretTracker.js#n42

Where both selected and focused events get registered but actually the only
event getting emitted out is called focus-changed, to keep things simple.
In that case though, selected is actually the more specific event i.e. you
can't select an object without focusing on it but you can focus on an
object without selecting it. So I guess your concern is a little less
trivial to work with.

Ultimately, the thing to consider is that you can listen to what you want
to listen otherwise there's a lot of entropy and it is going to be hard to
pick out only the events you want to know about for your particular
application. Depending on what you want to do, It could be an idea to have
a conditional in your code which says something like: If event is
caret-moved and text-changed then emit text-changed (or something) so you
are not having to deal too much useless information before you can find out
only what you want to know and nothing else.

this situation without a delay which obviously not a perfect solution.
>
> > Take a look at Alejandro's examples  github repository in if that seems
> > like it might be useful:  https://github.com/infapi00/at-spi2-examples
>
> Yes, thank you a lot for this link, I didn't know about it and will take
> a look!
>

Glad to help. Feel free to file a bug on the github tracker if there is any
example you would like to see.

Magdalen
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