Re: "orca-setup" being replaced by "orca --text-setup"

[Janina Sajka <janina rednote net>]

Hi, Willie:

An issue following on this email from some time ago ...

I have last Friday's CVS but get the error below. Possible that
orca_console_prefs would be missing?


Willie Walker writes:
> Hi All:
>
> We're busy refactoring away at the preferences setting mechanism for
> Orca.  I just checked in some changes to GNOME CVS HEAD that replaces
> the separate "orca-setup" utility with a "--text-setup" command line
> option for the "orca" command.  Before people get alarmed: WE ARE NOT
> GETTING RID OF THE TEXT BASED SETUP.  Read on for more information...
>
> The new mechanisms for setting up Orca at this point in time (they may
> change slightly before the next release, so hang on to your hats), are
> to pass command line options to the "orca" command.  These options are
> as follows:
>
> --text-setup: gives you the text-based preferences setup interface that
> you used to get with orca-setup.  It does not require the desktop to be
> running and can be run from a virtual console.

I'm not sure quite what a virtual console is, but I'm not succeeding
running from a console.

Here's what I get. This is from a build from last Friday's CVS.

janina sonata 14:17 ~$orca --text-setup

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/orca/orca.py", line 1043, in
_showPreferencesConsole
    [''])
ImportError: No module named orca_console_prefs

Cannot start Orca because it cannot connect
to the Desktop.  Please make sure the DISPLAY
environment variable has been set.


use it cannot connect
to the Desktop.  Please make sure the DISPLAY
environment variable has been set.
Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
Xlib: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/orca/orca.py", line 1043, in _showPreferencesConsole
    [''])
ImportError: No module named orca_console_prefs
 
> --gui-setup: gives you a GUI-based preferences setup interface, and is
> also available via Insert+s when Orca is running.  This is still under
> construction and does not work yet, so don't try it yet. We'll send an
> e-mail when it's ready for a look (later this week).
>
> Note that you also still have the option of manually editing the
> preferences file in your favorite accessible editor.  
>
> Will
>
>
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