Bug 505640

Summary:	Don't show "speak text" selection of text in dolphin if Orca isn't installed.
Product:	[Applications] dolphin	Reporter:	Erwin Iosef <rblade457>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Dolphin Bug Assignee <dolphin-bugs-null>
Status:	REPORTED ---
Severity:	normal	CC:	dolphin-bugs-null, nicolas.fella
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	25.04.2
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Arch Linux
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
Sentry Crash Report:
Attachments:	The speak text button appearing after right click on file rename

Description Erwin Iosef 2025-06-15 18:52:50 UTC

When you click on a text in dolphin you get the "speak text" option on right click, however it doesn't work if orca isn't installed and I'm not sure it's listed as a dependency anywhere. A good solution might be to make it available on having orca or any other compatible screen reader installed, or hide it if not.
AFAIK, Fedora and Arch do not list it as optional dependencies as well, so it'd be right to inform  about it if none of the distros list it as such.

Comment 1 Nicolas Fella 2025-06-15 20:08:33 UTC

Where exactly do you see this feature? I'm pretty sure Dolphin doesn't have this

Comment 2 Erwin Iosef 2025-06-16 04:53:36 UTC

Created attachment 182299 [details]
The speak text button appearing after right click on file rename

I'm not sure if this is some left over from previous Dolphin installs, but on clicking it doesn't produce anything in console either, you can see it if you right click a file-> rename-> select filename text-> right click again.

Comment 3 Nicolas Fella 2025-06-16 09:07:46 UTC

aah, I see it now. The code for it is not in Dolphin itself but another library, that's why I didn't find it.

It doesn't need Orca (or any full screen reader) to work, only speech-dispatcher. Since Orca also uses speech-dispatcher installing it happens to also install the needed packages

Comment 4 Erwin Iosef 2025-06-16 09:17:38 UTC

So, it's a feature then. But I just uninstalled speech-dispatcher and orca yesterday, rebooted and the button is still there, in fact the video I sent was without them installed. What does it all mean?