Hi Sean, I'm redirecting this to the cygwin list so that we may all benefit:
> Is there any effort towards making setup.exe accessible? Not to my knowledge, no, which FWIW I find very unfortunate. > Those of us who use a screen reading program and/or keyboard > access find it impossible to use setup.exe without > assistance. The view button should activate with the > spacebar or enter key and does not. The view button when > activated with the space bar should open up a list of > packages and does not. Each item in the list should be a > multistate toggle which should be toggled with the spacebar. > Look at the windows installation program to see what I'm > talking about. In the section which allows you to choose > accessories for example there is a button you can hit enter > or spacebar on which says details. From there you are in a > list of programs you can select or deselect with the > spacebar. This is how setup.exe should behave. There are many problems with setup, hence my comment. The unfortunate truth is that setup development has historically been excruciatingly slow, and I have no reason to believe that the level of activity will increase by any appreciable extent in the forseeable future. I know it may come as small comfort, but it used to be worse. If you are able to, I am certain that any effort you can lend to the development of setup will be appreciated. -- Gary R. Van Sickle > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Gary R. Van Sickle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <cygwin@cygwin.com> > Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2005 6:58 PM > Subject: RE: Bespoke installations: simple elegance of > setup.exe when setup.ini is absent > > > > [snip] > > > > Ahem. As one of the many people responsible for setup, I > take issue with > > the accusation that it is either "simple" or "elegant". > > > > ;-) > > > > -- > > Gary R. Van Sickle > > > > > > > > -- > > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html > > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
