Re: [g-a-devel] success with gnopernicus 0.8.4 Gnome 2.6 in Debian

[Peter Korn <Peter Korn Sun COM>]

Hi Kenny,

> Hi.  Since both boxes are running Debian unstable, the versions 
> of Gnome libs and programs are the same.
> The only difference is the Java support.  From the messages over the
> last 1.5 years on this list, I've always thought Java was a requirement
> for Mozilla as well.

I rather doubt it is the Java.  Try adding Sun's J2SE 1.4.2 or 1.5, and see if 
you start loosing stability...


Regards,

Peter Korn
Sun Accessibility team

>           Kenny
>
> On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 11:50:35AM -0800, Peter Korn wrote:
>
> > Hi Kenny,
> >
> > Without a detailed list of the versions of all of the bits that you are 
> > running, it is difficult to attempt to diagnose anything.  I'm very pleased 
> > to hear you have a very stable system with Gnopernicus now - the internal 
> > stuff we're running in Sun is reasonably stable for us.
> >
> > Java is NOT a requirement for Mozilla access; only for StarOffice and of 
> > course for Java applications.
> >
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Peter Korn
> > Sun Accessibility team
> >
> >
> > Kenny Hitt wrote:
> >
> > > Hi.  I recently installed a new Debian system.  I upgraded the box to
> > > unstable.  I installed the Debian packages for Gnome and Gnopernicus.
> > > In Debian, Gnome 2.6 and Gnopernicus 0.8.4 are the latest available.  I
> > > haven't installed any Java support.  Since Debian doesn't allow Java in
> > > it's main distro, I don't believe any Java packages were installed
> > > as dependencys.
> > > I've noticed I have a very stable system. I haven't crashed Gnopernicus
> > > or any gnome app in the over 2 months I've been running it this way.
> > > There are some problems with accessibility, but no problems with
> > > stability.  On my other Debian box which has Sun's JDK installed,
> > > Gnopernicus is very unstable.  That box's Gnome is basically useless.
> > > Does anyone have an idea why a system using only Debian packages is so
> > > stable while a box with Java support isn't?  The box with Java install
> > > is completely stable for my sighted girl friend who doesn't use any
> > > Gnome accessibility features.  That would suggest the stability problems
> > > are part of the accessibility and not a general problem.
> > >
> > > One other strange thing is Mozilla access.  the box with Java installed
> > > doesn't have much access to Mozilla.  the box with all Debian packages
> > > will allow me to read web pages using Mozilla-firefox.  The access isn't
> > > perfect, but it is noticably better than anything I've had before.
> > > I thought Java was a requirement for Mozilla access.  Can someone pleas
> > > explain what is going on?
> > >
> > >         Kenny
> > >
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