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Hi all,
Just wanted to post my experiences as of Saturday's
live cd; but before doing so, I would once again like to express my extreme
appreciation for all the time and effort being put in by the accessibility
team. I know that the CD is still a work in progress, and that the issues
I'm experiencing are most likely documented and already being addressed, but
just thought I would bring them up here to be sure.
First, the good news is that Festival now
works!
As was discussed a few days ago, the accessibility
flag is not being enabled; However, this issue can be gotten around fairly
easily, by letting Gnopernicus enable the flag and then logging off the active
user.
The first issue I
ran into was that upon logging back in and attempting to run gnopernicus, I got
all kinds of instability involving gnome-panel. This issue is not unique
to the live cd, and impacts Orca as well. The only workaround I know of
for the time being is to run gnopernicus either from gnome-terminal, or
from the console.
So basically, I found that at present, it is
possible after a bit of fiddling to get up and running with an accessible
desktop via the live cd;However, I came up against a show
stopper when I attempted to install the system to my hard drive. I
found that the installer's window wasn't being read at all by gnopernicus,
and after looking at the properties for the installer's desktop item, I noticed
that the command to launch the program makes use of gksudo. The problems
posed by sudo have been discussed on this list and are also outlined in the
following bug:
However, that bug has been opened for quite some
time, so I'm wondering whether as a short to intermediate term solution, it
would be possible to change the command for the installer so as not to require
sudo?
Again, this was saturday's CD, and perhaps some
changes have been made since then, but that brings me to another question.
Is there any way to see a log of changes made to each daily release before
actually deciding whether to download it?
Thanks,
--Al
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