GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 432717
Typing ctrl + c, doesn't speak a message like "copied selected text"
Last modified: 2007-04-30 18:51:22 UTC
From Krishnakant on the Orca mailing list: "I notice a strange uncomfort while coppying and paist of text or file. when I copy certain text from the document in open office word processor or text editor, it tells me what is selected, but when I press ctrl + c, I don't get a message like "copied selected text". if that could be added it would be such a nice thing to have as a clean audio interface." Further comment from Halim: "It should be adjustable. I don't like such messages but for some user it can be useful." Further comment from Hermann: "I agree with Halim: If you implement this feature, please make it optional."
Further comment from Krister to the Orca mailing list: "I would like to have this feature optional and to have it mode-dependent so that in verbose speech mode Orca says: "copied selected text to the clipboard" or such and in brief mode it just says: "copied", something i would prefer to use myself. I'd also want a check box in the preferences dialog to select whether i would want this feature or not."
I don't believe there is any visual feedback when doing something like Ctrl+C to copy. As such, I don't think we get any AT-SPI events (do we?), so I'm not sure we can actually implement this RFE.
I was wondering about this. We sure don't want to speek a message if nothing has happened.
This might be a bit hacky -- might not even work. :-) BUT: It seems that when you press Control+C or Control+X and something goes into the clipboard, we get several object:state-changed:sensitive events out of Nautilus. So could we look for those and then, based on the last input event, speak the (optional) message?