Problems with KDE Plasma terminal emulator "Konsole"

[Frederik Gladhorn]

On fredag 3. mai 2019 16:21:49 CEST Chrys wrote:
> Howdy Frederik,
> 
> Awsome! So after update to QT 5.12.4 i should be able to give konsole a shot
> again? Are your patches in Konsole master?

No, I haven't managed to finish them, I need to put them up for review.

Qt 5.12.4 only makes the terminal role work, I'm not sure how much that by 
itself helps.

Cheers,
Frederik


> 
> Cheers chrys
> 
> > Am 30.04.2019 um 14:58 schrieb Frederik Gladhorn 
<Frederik.Gladhorn at qt.io>:
> >> On mandag 8. april 2019 16:56:14 CEST Joanmarie Diggs wrote:
> >> Hey again.
> >> 
> >> We were getting focus and caret-moved events for something with role
> >> accelerator-label. That seemed bogus, so I'm now filtering those out in
> >> Orca master.
> >> 
> >> Having solved that problem, I went looking for the accessible object
> >> with role terminal in Accerciser, but couldn't find it in the
> >> accessibility tree. Weird. I also couldn't find the accelerator-label
> >> object in Accerciser. Then I did some local debugging. The object with
> >> role accelerator label happens to have the same text as what I see
> >> displayed in the terminal. So here are my guesses:
> >> 
> >> 1. Somehow the terminal is getting role accelerator label. That needs to
> >> 
> >>   be fixed. Aside from it being a bogus role for a terminal widget,
> >>   Orca uses the terminal role to identify when the terminal script
> >>   should be used. I might be wrong, but I think this should be an
> >>   easy fix.
> > 
> > The terminal role was badly mapped in Qt on Linux, this should be working
> > with Qt 5.12.4, I have a few patches to Konsole for some other unlabeled
> > buttons and such.
> > 
> >> 2. Assuming you, too, don't see the terminal widget in the accessibility
> >> 
> >>   tree, it would be good to figure out why that is and fix it. Whether
> >>   or not doing so will have a screamingly-obvious impact on Orca is
> >>   hard to say. But Orca does make some decisions about what to present,
> >>   and also obtains the stuff to present, by looking in the
> >>   accessibility tree. If that tree is broken, Orca might do the wrong
> >>   thing.
> > 
> > The terminal widget is presented as editable text, is that the best
> > approach? And it has children (some menu and other stuff iirc).
> > 
> > Does that make sense?
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > Frederik
> > 
> >> Lastly, I found an ancient hack in Orca for Qt in which we just trust
> >> that if we get a state-changed:focused event with detail1=1, it's a
> >> valid focus claim. This was (and perhaps still is?) needed because
> >> either the focused state and/or the focusable state were missing from
> >> the state set. I haven't removed that hack, but I have now added some
> >> extra debugging. We don't want missing states, because there can be
> >> other places Orca uses those states to decide what to present. Now
> >> something you could do is enable full debugging in Orca, use some QT
> >> apps, then look in the resulting debug.out. Search for "QT: WARNING". If
> >> you find it, please figure out why the state is missing and fix it. :)
> >> 
> >> Please let me know if you have any questions. And thanks for all your
> >> work in this area!
> >> 
> >> --joanie
> >> 
> >>> On 4/8/19 9:12 AM, Joanmarie Diggs wrote:
> >>> Hey Chrys.
> >>> 
> >>> Sure thing. I'm using KDE now myself. :)
> >>> 
> >>> --joanie
> >>> 
> >>>> On 4/7/19 6:03 PM, chrys wrote:
> >>>> Howdy Joanie,
> >>>> 
> >>>> i currently do some new testing session for KDE Plasma.
> >>>> 
> >>>> First of all, Thanks for the KWin script. i just test it,, the window
> >>>> switcher now works now very awsome with orca master :). Thanks!
> >>>> 
> >>>> I just play around with "Konsole" its the KDE Plasma Terminal emulator.
> >>>> and i figured, it has an A11y implementation! But it seems some kind of
> >>>> broken as orca doesn't announce incoming text or word echo like it does
> >>>> in gnome-terminal. But  i also figured that the text is available in
> >>>> review. Maybe could you take a look what broken that i can see what i
> >>>> can do to fix it?
> >>>> 
> >>>> cheers chrys