Package: cdebconf Version: 0.171 Severity: normal Hello,
The speech synthesis in the Debian installer currently has a few issues, which can actually be fixed the same way: dropping wrap-around. What happens is that what speech synthesis gets is what cdebconf-text-udeb writes to the console, for instance it would receive the above sentence as: "The speech synthesis currently has a few issues, which can actually be\nfixed the same way: dropping wrap-around.\n" And thus it considers these as two sentences. This is because in a terminal, lines are the semantic units. This is actually also deeply cabled in actual speech synthesizers. Another issue is this layout: 1: Choice 1, 4: Choice 4, 2: Choice 2, 5: Choice 5, 3: Choice 3, 6: Choice 6 The speech synthesis will read "1: Choice 1, 4: Choice 4, 2: Choice 2, 5: Choice 5, 3: Choice 3, 6: Choice 6", which is far from convenient. A solution to both problems would be to simply disable wrapping, i.e. when some option, environment variable or debconf variable is set, make getwidth() return e.g. 8192 (not INT_MAX, because some functions would try to allocate that). COLUMNS would work, but it would also break applications run from shells invoked from the main menu, so perhaps DEBCONF_TEXT_COLUMNS? Samuel -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 3.0.4 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages cdebconf depends on: ii debconf 1.5.44 ii dpkg 1.16.4.3 ii libc6 2.13-33 ii libdebian-installer4 0.81 ii libnewt0.52 0.52.14-10 ii libslang2 2.2.4-15 ii libtextwrap1 0.1-13 cdebconf recommends no packages. Versions of packages cdebconf suggests: pn cdebconf-gtk <none> -- debconf information: cdebconf/frontend/gtk: cdebconf/frontend/text: cdebconf/frontend/newt: cdebconf/frontend/none: * cdebconf/frontend: newt -- Samuel Thibault <samuel.thiba...@fnac.net> <B> l'alim je sais où elle est, elle est juste à côté de la dame qui dort <g> B: clairement faut revoir les priorités dans la vie <g> B: une dame ça se retrouve, un uptime... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120723152125.ga15...@type.engineering.c9.com
