Re: Metapackages for accessibility

2010-07-22 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 07:01:07PM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > Above Samuel says that in a *lot* of cases multiple screen readers do > not make sense. But does not go as far as claiming that in *all* cases > is that true. > > I therefore do not like conflicts here. > > Perhaps a mechanism

Re: Speakup dkms package.

2010-07-22 Thread Luke Yelavich
On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 04:16:21PM CEST, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Luke Yelavich, a écrit : > > Ok, I have pushed changes to speakup git to create the dkms package. > > Mmm, I don't see why you are defining ARCH. It is not > used in dkms.conf.in, and AIUI, it is optional for > /usr/lib/dkms/common.

Re: Speakup dkms package.

2010-07-22 Thread Samuel Thibault
Luke Yelavich, a écrit : > Ok, I have pushed changes to speakup git to create the dkms package. Mmm, I don't see why you are defining ARCH. It is not used in dkms.conf.in, and AIUI, it is optional for /usr/lib/dkms/common.postinst, you can pass "" and it indeed just works. > The architecture fiel

Re: Speakup dkms package.

2010-07-22 Thread Luke Yelavich
On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 01:24:11PM CEST, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Hello, > > Luke Yelavich, le Fri 09 Jul 2010 13:24:42 +1000, a écrit : > > I am writing to see whether having such a package would be worthwhile in > > Debian. > > It seems to me like it's a good thing, yes. Ok, I have pushed cha

Re: Speech Dispatcher issues

2010-07-22 Thread Trevor Saunders
Hi, I'm pretty sure I know what the problem your having is. Your not using pulse or libao as an audio back end right? Could you look at the last few lines of dmesg? I suspect you will find that sd_espeak has segfaulted after the few sentences. Some of the bugs have been fixed in newer version

Re: Speech Dispatcher issues

2010-07-22 Thread Milan Zamazal
> "MA" == Matt Arnold writes: MA> I am using Debian default configuration, and get no speech MA> output when the SPEAK command is issued from any client. I've MA> tried spd-say, Orca, my custom client, and just plain MA> openbsd-netcat. Sometimes it will output a sentence or

Re: Metapackages for accessibility

2010-07-22 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 10:44:52AM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > The problem with accessibility is that you can not make such decision. > > It's an area where you can not define a default value, as the possible > combinations of disabilities are numerous, and thus the combination of > tools to b

Re: Metapackages for accessibility

2010-07-22 Thread Samuel Thibault
Andreas Tille, le Thu 22 Jul 2010 09:01:59 +0200, a écrit : > In my eyes a metapackage is some kind of technically realising a > decision some knowledged people (you, the accessibility team in this > case) have made and will be ironed out in recommendations of different > strengthes to the uneducat

Re: Metapackages for accessibility

2010-07-22 Thread Andreas Tille
[CC to debian-blends because of some general ideas] On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 09:46:29PM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Mario Lang, le Tue 20 Jul 2010 21:29:34 +0200, a écrit : > > * "console-screen-reader" has several solutions which > >the user is not likely to use at once. More likely is t