Re: no speech out of gnopernicus except welcome

[Bill Haneman <bill haneman sun com>]

HI John:

While vicious-build-scripts used to be commonly used, jhbuild is now the
preferred (and thus better maintained and tested) build utility.

- Bill

On Wed, 2003-04-16 at 12:47, John covici wrote:
> Now this sounds like a good starting place -- what I am doing right
> now as I write -- I have something called vicious-build-scripts and I
> am building his default modules which look like most of them and
> where a module fails to build I am using the gnome-2-2 branch and so
> far that has worked.  Once that is done I will build the
> accessability modules and see what happens.  
> 
> I will take a look at the jbuild as well to see if it has something
> better.
> 
> on  04/16/2003 Bill Haneman(bill haneman sun com) wrote
>  > John:
>  > 
>  > You can try checking out the "jhbuild" package from GNOME cvs to help
>  > you build the whole stack.  After making and installing jhbuild you will
>  > need to edit ".jhbuildrc" in your home directory.
>  > 
>  > At the moment the most up-to-date and functional accessibility is from
>  > HEAD, which is what you get from the jhbuild "gnome24" moduleset, but
>  > there are occasional day-to-day build problems with that stack.  So
>  > perhaps we should create a "gnomeAccessibilityAlpha" moduleset or
>  > something similar, which pulls the stable gnome-2.2 modules wherever
>  > possible and only pulls "latest-and-greatest" for accessibility
>  > modules.  Once you've built the "default" target packages from jhbuild
>  > you would build the "meta-gnome-accessibility" package, and you should
>  > be done.
>  > 
>  > I can edit such a moduleset but I would need a volunteer to try it out
>  > (my machines are too full to support yet another full build), any
>  > takers?
>  > 
>  > regards,
>  > 
>  > Bill
>  > 
>  > On Tue, 2003-04-15 at 23:29, John covici wrote:
>  > > OK, so which packages do I need to rebuild and do I get them from the
>  > > regular cvs gnome site?  I would really like to build gnome
>  > > completely with the correct packages -- now I have Debian 2.2 and 5
>  > > or 6 packages from cvs.
>  > > 
>  > > on Tuesday 04/15/2003 Marc Mulcahy(marc mulcahy sun com) wrote
>  > >  > Hi John,
>  > >  > 
>  > >  > OK, well, here you go down the slippery slope of rebuilding things.  These 
>  > >  > look like outdated Nautilus/Gail packages.
>  > >  > 
>  > >  > Marc
>  > >  > 
>  > >  > At 04:06 AM 4/15/2003 -0400, John covici wrote:
>  > >  > >Well, the warning about libgail-gnome went away when I check it
>  > >  > >out --  with its correct spelling, but now I get the following:
>  > >  > >
>  > >  > >(gnome-panel:28597): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: invalid cast from
>  > >  > >`SpiAccessible' to `BonoboControlAccessible'
>  > >  > >
>  > >  > >(nautilus:28600): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: invalid cast from
>  > >  > >`FMIconContainer' to `GnomeCanvas'
>  > >  > >
>  > >  > >(nautilus:28600): Gtk-CRITICAL **: file gtktextbuffer.c: line 496
>  > >  > >(gtk_text_buffer_set_text): assertion `text != NULL' failed
>  > >  > >
>  > >  > >Also, since I do have the Dec talk hardware, can I use that instead
>  > >  > >of festival and if so, how do I change the synth I am using?
>  > >  > >I think we are getting there, but we do have those annoying xml files
>  > >  > >which its hard to figure out what they do.
>  > >  > >
>  > >  > >on Monday 04/14/2003 Marc Mulcahy(marc mulcahy sun com) wrote
>  > >  > >  > John,
>  > >  > >  >
>  > >  > >  > Also, if you have an environment in which you can build GNOME modules, 
>  > >  > > you
>  > >  > >  > might try just checking out libgail-gnome and seeing how you get
>  > >  > >  > along.  libgail-gnome is needed to make the panel and many other GNOME 
>  > >  > > apps
>  > >  > >  > accessible.
>  > >  > >  >
>  > >  > >  > marc
>  > >  > >  >
>  > >  > >  > At 03:51 PM 4/14/2003 -0400, John covici wrote:
>  > >  > >  > >Well, it said the word panel,  possibly an improvement, but its
>  > >  > >  > >looking for libgale-gnome which seems not to be there.
>  > >  > >  > >
>  > >  > >  > >I may try some other apps and see if it says anything.
>  > >  > >  > >
>  > >  > >  > >But so far no luck, although I did hear restore window once, so it
>  > >  > >  > >looks like something is happening.
>  > >  > >  > >
>  > >  > >  > >What I think I need to do is get the whole gnome environment from cvs
>  > >  > >  > >rather than trying to use the Debian gnome 2.2 environment -- what
>  > >  > >  > >would be the best way to do that?
>  > >  > >  > >
>  > >  > >  > >on Monday 04/14/2003 Peter Korn(peter korn sun com) wrote
>  > >  > >  > >  > Hi John,
>  > >  > >  > >  >
>  > >  > >  > >  > > Hi.  After getting cvs versions of gnopernicus, atk at-spi and of
>  > >  > >  > >  > > course the famous gtk-doc, I cannot get gnopernicus to say anything
>  > >  > >  > >  > > after the welcome message -- I can run gnome-panel, and nothing
>  > >  > >  > >  > > happens hotting tab, alt, arrow keys and I get nothing.  It always
>  > >  > >  > >  > > says welcome to gnopernicus, so its running and the message says
>  > >  > >  > >  > > speech initialization successful on the text console, but 
>  > >  > > that's all
>  > >  > >  > >  > > I get.
>  > >  > >  > >  > >
>  > >  > >  > >  > > Well, what do I do from here?
>  > >  > >  > >  >
>  > >  > >  > >  > The accessibility machinery needs to be turned on for Gnopenricus 
>  > >  > > to read
>  > >  > >  > >  > the contents of applications.  The attached script is nice to use to
>  > >  > >  > > modify
>  > >  > >  > >  > the GConf setting to make this happen.  Re-start your gnome 
>  > >  > > session after
>  > >  > >  > >  > you run this script.
>  > >  > >  > >  >
>  > >  > >  > >  >
>  > >  > >  > >  > Peter#!/bin/sh
>  > >  > >  > >  >
>  > >  > >  > >  > if test $# -eq 0
>  > >  > >  > >  >      then gconftool-2 -g /desktop/gnome/interface/accessibility
>  > >  > >  > >  > fi
>  > >  > >  > >  >
>  > >  > >  > >  > if test $# -eq 1
>  > >  > >  > >  >      then if test $1 = on -o $1 = true
>  > >  > >  > >  >              then gconftool-2 -s 
>  > >  > > /desktop/gnome/interface/accessibility \
>  > >  > >  > >  >                              -t bool true
>  > >  > >  > >  >      elif test $1 = off -o $1 = false
>  > >  > >  > >  >              then gconftool-2 -s 
>  > >  > > /desktop/gnome/interface/accessibility \
>  > >  > >  > >  >                              -t bool false
>  > >  > >  > >  >      else echo gnome-accessibility: unknown command $1
>  > >  > >  > >  >      fi
>  > >  > >  > >  > fi
>  > >  > >  > >
>  > >  > >  > >--
>  > >  > >  > >          John Covici
>  > >  > >  > >          covici ccs covici com
>  > >  > >  > >_______________________________________________
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>  > >  > >          John Covici
>  > >  > >          covici ccs covici com
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>          John Covici
>          covici ccs covici com