Bug#859262: Re: gnome-orca: Gets stuck if target app is busy

[Samuel Thibault]

Control: forwarded -1 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=756514

Michael Biebl, on mer. 19 avril 2017 22:55:01 +0200, wrote:
> Am 19.04.2017 um 22:37 schrieb Niels Thykier:
> > Control: retitle -1 gnome-orca: Gets stuck if target app is busy
> > 
> > Samuel Thibault:
> >> Niels Thykier, on mer. 19 avril 2017 20:19:00 +0000, wrote:
> >>> Time to hunt for some dbus experts who can tell us why a process might
> >>> fail to respond to a ping.
> >>
> >> Well, the application could simply be busy doing other stuff, like
> >> processing huge packages lists for synaptic.  And that's not a reason
> >> for Orca to freeze, for me that's the most important bug to fix: Orca
> >> shouldn't rely on applications behaving correctly.
> >>
> >> Samuel
> >>
> > 
> > Ok, thanks for clarifying. :)
> > 
> > I have retitled the bug to reflect the situation.
> 
> Is this https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=756514 maybe?

That very much looks so :)

Now, the bug is reported as being a regression from Jessie, perhaps for
the Stretch case we should check what changed, since Orca not being
robust against non-responsive applications is not really something new.

Samuel