Problems with KDE Plasma terminal emulator "Konsole"

[Chrys]

Howdy,

> Qt 5.12.4 only makes the terminal role work, I'm not sure how much that by 
> itself helps.
Ok, lets try it out. We will see what happens

> Am 06.05.2019 um 10:35 schrieb Frederik Gladhorn <gladhorn at kde.org>:
> 
>> 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
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