Re: [orca-list] testresults of new settings and profile stuff

[Joanmarie Diggs <joanmarie diggs gmail com>]

Hey Steve.

I have just opened the following bug for your report:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=637780

I've assigned it to Ale in the hopes he can look into it soon. If not,
I'll do so.

Thanks and take care.
--joanie

On Tue, 2010-12-21 at 08:57 -0700, Steve Holmes wrote:
> I'm seeing another problem with the new settings deal.  It seems that
> if one uses gdm, it keeps overlaying the settingss.  I will list below
> my steps to demonstrate what I mean.
>
> 1. Sart up gdm by whatever means perscribed by your distro.
>
> 2. Assuming your gdm has been preconfigured to launch orca, Orca
> should begin speaking.  Note that the settings dialog will not come up
> automatically but can be started with the Orca+Space-bar key.  I
> believe this is by design for gdm session.
>
> 3. Go ahead and make whatever changes you wish to Orca; for me, I turn
> off some of the keyboard echo stuff.
>
> 4. Save the settings; hit Apply or OK to commit the changes and then
> get out of the gdm session without logging into a normal user session.
>
> 5. From a console, kill and restart gdm.
>
> 6. Notice that Orca reverts back to factory settings.
>
> Further observations show me that in /var/lib/gdm, my home directory
> for gdm, the file .local/share/orca/user-settings.conf is getting
> overwritten every time orca starts.  So it overlays previously
> committed changes.  I even saved the default profile with my new
> preferences in case that might make a difference but That had no
> effect.  I even turned off all write permissions on user-settings.conf
> but then starting Orca caused some errors with no speech so I don't
> know the errors.
>
> Bottom line: I cannot permenantly update settings for the gdm user
> login session.
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