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Bug 591086 - [blocked] Enabling braille text attributes crashes Pidgin and Empathy and Ekiga
[blocked] Enabling braille text attributes crashes Pidgin and Empathy and Ekiga
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: orca
Classification: Applications
Component: general
2.27.x
Other All
: Normal critical
: 2.28.0
Assigned To: Joanmarie Diggs (IRC: joanie)
Orca Maintainers
http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/9864
Depends on: 591105
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2009-08-07 17:36 UTC by Joanmarie Diggs (IRC: joanie)
Modified: 2009-11-09 21:35 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.27/2.28


Description Joanmarie Diggs (IRC: joanie) 2009-08-07 17:36:01 UTC 
Steps to reproduce:

1. Enable the braille text attributes indicator (by default, the underlining style if None)

2. Open a chat window in Pidgin

3. Start typing a message

Expected results: Pidgin would not crash.

Actual results: Pidgin crashes.

Note that this problem can be reproduced without Orca running; in Accerciser, attempting to get the default text attributes for the editable text object reliably crashes Pidgin. I have filed a bug against Pidgin here: http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/9864

The work-around in the meantime is to not enable the display of braille text attributes in your Orca setting for Pidgin.
Comment 1 Joanmarie Diggs (IRC: joanie) 2009-08-07 21:01:59 UTC 
I should add that doing an Orca+F to have the attributes spoken will also crash Pidgin.

On another note, this is actually an atk bug (bug 591105), but I've asked the Pidgin developers to consider changing the wrap mode in the meantime.
Comment 2 Joanmarie Diggs (IRC: joanie) 2009-08-09 05:31:35 UTC 
Adding Empathy to the list of impacted apps. :-(
Comment 3 Joanmarie Diggs (IRC: joanie) 2009-08-10 04:24:58 UTC 
The good news is that Li just committed the fix for the atk bug. Whether or not the developers of Pidgin, Empathy, and Ekiga also add some defensive handling into their code is up to them, of course. I'll put a note up on the wiki.

Closing this bug as FIXED.