Jeff, thanks for the details. I can confirm that In Chromium auto-show only works in the url-bar. Apparently linux accessibility is still work in progress: http://dev.chromium.org/developers/accessibility/linux-accessibility There's also this open bug report for Orca: https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=24585 Onboard's needs are just a small subset of Orca's, so once that bug is closed Onboard's auto-show should be supported as well.
The qt-frontend of VirtualBox does well with auto-show on ubuntu 12.10. I've tested 4.1.18 from quantal's repos, as well as version 4.2 from your link. Both show/hide Onboard for all the text entries I tried. In theory all qt applications should be supported. The bridge to AT-SPI for the qt toolkit is qt-at-spi, which is installed by default on quantal. Could you check if it is there on precise? Auto-show with virtualized applications is unlikely to happen, I agree. VirtualBox would need to act as a proxy for the guest's AT-SPI calls for this to work. Dash on quantal seems to show Onboard sometimes, though not reliably and not for long. It seems there is progress, but the bug is still open: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity/+bug/960537 ** Bug watch added: code.google.com/p/chromium/issues #24585 http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=24585 ** Description changed: I'm testing onboard 0.97 in 2 different computers (one with oneiric: 0.97.0+tr756-0ppa~oneiric1, another one with precise alpha2: 0.97.0-0ubuntu1), both of them with auto-show when editing, show when unlocking, show tooltips, always on top. Most applications work fine with the new 'auto-show when editing' option, but I've found a few 'text applications' with wrong behaviour: - If onboard is hidden, they don't unhide (the right bevaviour is unhide) - If onboard was automatically unhided by another application , they hide onboard (the right behaviour is do nothing). Please note that in case of onboard was unhidden by a 'manual' clicking on onboard's icon, those applications don't hide onboard (right behaviour) I post all of wrong applications I've found in only one bug, if you prefer I can file different bugs. - opening the dash: this bug is different than #915250 , and this new bug is present even in unity-2d and with 'always on top' marked New bug reported here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity/+bug/960537 - wxmaxima: cells and text boxes - qtoctave: the editor - skype: the user/password window - tuxpaint: the option to write text in a image (in some other applications as gimp or xournal this feature works fine) - the right-click option to rename files in nautilus New bug reported here: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=672498 - wine: tested with Adob Digital Editions - texmaker - fbreader - vlc (text boxes in preferences) + + - chromium-browser (all text entries except the url-bar) + Upstream bug report for Orca here: + https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=24585 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to onboard in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/936310 Title: Some applications don't 'auto-show' onboard Status in Onboard on-screen keyboard: New Status in “onboard” package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: I'm testing onboard 0.97 in 2 different computers (one with oneiric: 0.97.0+tr756-0ppa~oneiric1, another one with precise alpha2: 0.97.0-0ubuntu1), both of them with auto-show when editing, show when unlocking, show tooltips, always on top. Most applications work fine with the new 'auto-show when editing' option, but I've found a few 'text applications' with wrong behaviour: - If onboard is hidden, they don't unhide (the right bevaviour is unhide) - If onboard was automatically unhided by another application , they hide onboard (the right behaviour is do nothing). Please note that in case of onboard was unhidden by a 'manual' clicking on onboard's icon, those applications don't hide onboard (right behaviour) I post all of wrong applications I've found in only one bug, if you prefer I can file different bugs. - opening the dash: this bug is different than #915250 , and this new bug is present even in unity-2d and with 'always on top' marked New bug reported here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity/+bug/960537 - wxmaxima: cells and text boxes - qtoctave: the editor - skype: the user/password window - tuxpaint: the option to write text in a image (in some other applications as gimp or xournal this feature works fine) - the right-click option to rename files in nautilus New bug reported here: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=672498 - wine: tested with Adob Digital Editions - texmaker - fbreader - vlc (text boxes in preferences) - chromium-browser (all text entries except the url-bar) Upstream bug report for Orca here: https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=24585 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/onboard/+bug/936310/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
