Re: [orca-list] Problems with GNOME and admin applications

[Hermann <meinelisten onlinehome de>]

am Di 17. Mär 2009 um 20:13:17 schrieb Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>:
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> What I meant to write was that it works fine for me on OpenSolaris  
> 2008.11.  We test this stuff and work to get it right.
>
> So, it might be an integration issue with GRML.  I'd recommend that if  
> one cares about a11y integration, they work with a distribution that  
> cares about getting it right.  But, if they are stuck with GRML for some  
> reason or another, then they might need to spend their energy providing  
> constructive, polite, and helpful feedback to the GRML folks.
The guy who confirmed my observations does notuse GRML. So it must be
a Gnome problem.
And BTW: Which OS' integrate a11y right besides Ubuntu?
I always thought that Orca's a screen reader for Gnome, not for Ubuntu
only.
One difference to Ubuntu is the fact that you don't need that "sudo"
workaround, because GRML (and I think Lenny too) asks you to set up a
root account during installation.
So I open a Gnome terminal and type:
su
After providing my root password, I can use root admin tools without
the need of the sudo command. And this used to work after the first
install of the Gnome-desktop-environment; so something must have gone
wrong while upgrading to Gnome 2.24. But this is speculation.
Hermann