[Libreoffice-qa] New tracking bug for important bugs related to the Mac OS X Accessibility API

[Roman Eisele]

Hi all,

I have created a new Meta issue/tracking bug:

   https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55571
   “[Task] Tracking bug for important bugs related to the Mac OS X
   Accessibility API”

This means, for crashes and hangs in LibreOffice for Mac OS X which 
become manifest *only* if

a) some option in Apple’s “Universal Access” preferences pane is
    activated, e.g. “VoiceOver” or “Enable access for assistive
    devices”; and/or
b) if some utility/extension/control panel/… is activated/running
    which relies on Apple’s Mac OS X Accessibility API; this applies to
    many window management and other UI utilities, like BetterSnapTool,
    BetterTouchTool, Cinch, LazyMouse, Moom, RightZoom … to mention only
    some popular examples.

Background: For a long time, we used bug bug 47368 -- “Many crashes when 
accessibility enabled on MacOS X” -- as some kind of informal task bug 
for such issues. Now the confusing bug 47368 is fixed and closed, and in 
addition Tor Lillqvist has fixed two remaining accessibility-related issues.

After that I thought first we would not need any new task/tracking bug 
at all. But then I reproduced yet another accessibility-related issue 
(54923) which may have some duplicates, and there are still some similar 
bugs in NEEDINFO status, and (let’s be realistic) very probably more bug 
reports are coming.

Therefore it seemed advisable to create a new, clean meta issue to keep 
track both of fixed and of open bugs in this area, because these 
hard-to-reproduce problems can cause much confusion for bug wranglers 
and users (and developers?), so that clarity and transparency is very 
important here.

Hope it helps,

     Roman