Re: Orca Running on the Edgy Live CD -- HOWTO

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

Hi All:

In response to the problems we saw people having with Orca going into
text-setup mode when launched from a graphical environment, we made a
change to the Orca launch script for Orca V1.0 (due any day now).

If we detect that the text setup utility will be brought up when Orca is
launched via a graphical means (e.g., Alt+F2, the launch menu, etc.), we
will spawn a gnome-terminal and run Orca inside it.  This isn't the most
glamorous solution, but it does work around the serious problem that
first time users were experiencing when launching Orca from the desktop.

Note that post GNOME 2.16, we intend to work with the larger community
to devise a plan for how to better integrate and configure accessibility
and assistive technology solutions for the desktop as a whole.

Will

On Tue, 2006-08-29 at 21:21 +0100, Henrik Nilsen Omma wrote:
> Rich Burridge wrote:
> > * I used Control-Alt-F1 to bring up a virtual console to do the initial
> >  run of Orca. It's less to type blindly then Alt-F2 and "gnome-terminal"
> >  and "orca". Alt-F7 to get back to your desktop. Control-Alt-Backspace
> >  as you suggest to logout.
>
> Ah, very good. It didn't occur to me that on the live CD you actually 
> end up at a prompt that is already logged in.
> > * I logged back in and started up Orca, but then had real problems with
> >  none of the applications I tried starting up. Visually the little 
> > wheel icon
> >  would "spin" and there would be a "Starting <application>" tab in the
> >  gnome-panel but the application would not come up on the screen. By
> >  going back to the virtual console, I could see that the app was running.
>
> This sounds like a generic Live CD bug, possibly related to the AT-SPI 
> or python instabilities we have seen recently.
>
> Joanmarie Diggs wrote:
> > 1. Include a statement about the current need to use a *32-bit* Live CD
> > rather than the 64-bit one.
> >
> > 2. Under step 4 (exploring the Ubuntu menus) and/or step 5 (installing
> > Ubuntu), perhaps mention the relevant command just to get the person to
> > the menus and/or the desktop.
> >
> > 3. Somewhere possibly include a link to the current GNOME Desktop
> > Accessibility Guide.  I've found the keyboard navigation section to be
> > quite helpful.
>
> All good stuff, thanks! I've updated the guide accordingly.
>
> - Henrik
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