338242 - autocomplete list makes GOK slow or behave abnormally

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: Disability Access, defect)

Description

[Evan Yan]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20060508 Minefield/3.0a1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20060508 Minefield/3.0a1

when auto complete list popup, GOK hangs.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. start firefox and GOK;
2. click on GOK UI-Grab;
3. input some text in a textbox, let the auto complete list popup, say inputing a keyword which you have ever searched before in Google search box;

Actual Results:  
GOK hangs for minutes.

Expected Results:  
should not make GOK hang

any textbox which have auto complete function has this problem. like all html textbox, URL box and search box in the toolbar.

Comment 1

[Evan Yan]

gok can't work with application autocompletion now.

Comment 2

[Mike Gao]

on my box(FC5), the response time is shorter, about 10 more seconds. The problem does not happen all the time. When this happends, GOK does not work correctly. The input might be the content on previous button, or the button might not be high-lighten when the mouse moves over, sometimes there are 2 buttons get high-lighten at the sametime...

Comment 3

[Mike Gao]

For the firefox 1.5.01 on on FC5, it's not slow, but I have to double click on the keys on GOK keyboard to input the letters whilie the autocomplete list appears. after the first click, the autocomplete list disappears and the key got focus, after the second click, the letter is entered and the autocomplete list appears again.

Below is the build identifier:
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060313 Fedora/1.5.0.1-9 Firefox/1.5.0.1 pango-text

I also tested the latest firefox1.5 and trunk nightly build with my GOK 1.1.0 on FC5. I used the build bellow:
1)ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-firefox1.5.0.4/firefox-1.5.0.4.en-US.linux-i686.tar.gz
2)ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-trunk/firefox-3.0a1.en-US.linux-i686.tar.bz2

Sometimes they work well, sometimes it have the same problem as described in comments#2.

Comment 4

[Aaron Leventhal]

Mike, please mark this bug "Confirmed" if there is a problem and "Accept bug" if you are planning to find a fix for it.

Comment 5

[Mike Gao]

I accepted the bug and modified the title according to the finding on FC5 with GOK 1.1.0.

Evan, anything different after you upgrade GOK from 1.0.5 to 1.1.0 on ubuntu/solaris?

Comment 6

[Mike Gao]

I also tested GOK 1.1.0 with other applications which has autocomplete list feature, it has the same problem:

1) OpenOffice.org Word Processor's "Export" dialog
It has the same problem as comment#2.

2) Glade "select the project directory" dialog 
It has the same problem as comment#3, need double click to enter letters.

So I suspect this might be a bug of GOK.

Comment 7

[Aaron Leventhal]

Definitely sounds like a GOK bug then. David could you take a look at comment 6?

Comment 8

[David Bolter [:davidb] (NeedInfo me for attention)]

Mike,

Before I look into this it would be helpful to know if you are using a non-core input device (e.g. a second mouse that doesn't send core events) to operate GOK? This is the supported way of using GOK.

Comment 9

[Aaron Leventhal]

Temporarily assigning to David Bolter until we get more info about what is happening with GOK.

Comment 10

[Mike Gao]

David, 

I am not using the second mouse for the test. I am not sure how to configure it. I  see the "Other input device" option in the GOK Preferences window, but the combo box is blank. Could you please help on this?

Comment 11

[David Bolter [:davidb] (NeedInfo me for attention)]

Mike,

Sure. I wish we made it simpler to configure this... it is on the TODO list. For now please see "Input Device Configuration" at http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/gok/README?view=markup

Once you have configured a second mouse it should appear in the combo box you refer to.  If you run into snags please ask questions here or email me directly.

Comment 12

[Mike Gao]

I am using FC5. some contents in my /etx/X11/xorg.conf:

Section "ServerLayout"
        Identifier     "single head configuration"
        Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
        InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
        InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
        InputDevice    "other"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier  "Mouse0"
        Driver      "mouse"
#       Option      "Protocol" "auto"
        Option      "Device" "/dev/input/mouse0"
        Option      "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier  "other"
        Driver      "mouse"
        Option      "Protocol" "VUID"
#       Option      "Protocol" "auto"
        Option      "Device" "/dev/input/mouse1"
EndSection

But I still could not see anything in the combo box.

Anyway, I think this should be a bug of GOK according to comment#6.

Comment 13

[Aaron Leventhal]

Bug in GOK. A bug needs to be opened in bugs.gnome.org.