Bug 505640 - Don't show "speak text" selection of text in dolphin if Orca isn't installed.
Summary: Don't show "speak text" selection of text in dolphin if Orca isn't installed.
Status: REPORTED
Alias: None
Product: dolphin
Classification: Applications
Component: general (other bugs)
Version First Reported In: 25.04.2
Platform: Arch Linux Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Dolphin Bug Assignee
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Reported: 2025-06-15 18:52 UTC by Erwin Iosef
Modified: 2025-06-16 09:17 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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The speak text button appearing after right click on file rename (673.45 KB, video/x-matroska)
2025-06-16 04:53 UTC, Erwin Iosef
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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?