Post #2895959

2026-01-03 02:28 UTC

Incidentally, on the topic of LTS distros where Orca works well on Wayland, particularly with GNOME, I regret that the implementation of proper keystroke monitoring and grabbing, which I prototyped in mid 2024 and which someone else brought to production in time for GNOME 48, didn't get there in time for RHEL 10, which ships GNOME 47. Maybe I could have done more to bring that important functionality to production sooner, but my efforts were focused elsewhere in the second half of 2024.

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@matt@toot.cafe 2026-01-03 12:28

Correction: RHEL 10 backported the keyboard monitor implementation in Mutter, and updated at-spi2-core and Orca to versions with that feature. Thanks to @AdrianVovk@fosstodon.org for pointing out that this was likely. Still, I think it might be better to align with Debian 13 (trixie), which ships GNOME 48, for my training idea, both because it has a slightly newer version of GNOME (and presumably other components too), and because the upstream distro is fully free.

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@vol4life8657@tweesecake.social 2026-01-03 02:30

@matt@toot.cafe So which distro works the best with accessiblity with gnome? And is gnome better than mait?

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@TheEvilSkeleton@social.treehouse.systems 2026-01-03 04:19

@matt@toot.cafe please don't blame yourself over something Red Hat did not pay you to do (presumably). Looking at the GNOME Release Calendar, 47 is no longer supported; by using 47, they're essentially in unsupported territory, so beyond that this is 100% on them.

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@karolherbst@chaos.social 2026-01-03 07:29

@matt@toot.cafe though Red Hat _does_ backport features if there is a good reason of doing so, so maybe it makes sense to bring it up. But without a paying customer (well.. all state agencies here) pushing for it, there isn't a big incentive to do so. However if it's deemed to be important, it might get backported by Red Hat engineers.

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@AdrianVovk@fosstodon.org 2026-01-03 07:37

@matt@toot.cafe I've asked about this internally, but I think it's quite likely that it has been backported

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