Re: [orca-list] Administrative program accessibility on OpenSuSE compared to Ubuntu

[Luke Yelavich <themuso ubuntu com>]

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On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 01:14:49PM EST, Jacob Schmude wrote:
> Hi Luke
> Open Yast for a good example of this, although any administration  
> program will do--as Yast is the primary admin tool on OpenSUSE however  
> it's a good start. I haven't looked into OpenSUSE in great detail though 
> I do have it installed here, but their sudo acts very different from 
> most. You'll notice that it asks you for the root password, not your 
> password, and does so even from the terminal and not only from the GUI. 
> Perhaps they're not using standard sudo, or have set it up vastly 
> different from the way I've seen sudo being configured.

Thanks, wil check that out.

> There was also a post on the gnome-accessibility-list a while back from 
> someone at Novell who claimed they had patched Orbit so the .orbitrc hack 
> was no longer necessary. Perhaps they integrated this patch into 
> OpenSUSE? See this message:
> ORBit change needs testing
> The message seems to indicate that this patch was put into svn at that  
> time, but I'm not sure if that happened. The behavior of orbit in other 
> distros seems to indicate that it did not.

Will check that out also.

One thing I also noticed on the 11.1 OpenSuSE live CD is that the logout/shutdown dialogs are not accessible 
either, so at least for GNOME 2.2.4, the problem wasn't just Ubuntu.

Luke
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