Re: [orca-list] speaking words shortly or broken

[David Mehler <dave mehler gmail com>]

Hi,
Honestly, the behavior seems like the same bug, but the fix didn't work.
Dave.


On 5/9/10, Michael Whapples <mwhapples aim com> wrote:
> Yes I was thinking of the Arch bug. My thinking was that as it also
> happens on fedora then may be it was the same issue on ubuntu. If as you
> imply this is a different bug on ubuntu, I possibly would suggest it
> sounds like it may be ubuntu specific and may be better pointed to ubuntu.
>
> Michael Whapples
> On 05/09/2010 01:23 PM, David Mehler wrote:
> > Hi,
> > Not the originator of this, but if your refering to the orca issue in
> > gnome 2.30 where a second instance of orca is started after
> > preferences are configured, the solution of alt tabbing in arch which
> > worked fine, did not work in ubuntu 10.04 desktop. I had to hard
> > reboot the box to get the settings to apply.
> > Dave.
> >
> >
> > On 5/9/10, Michael Whapples<mwhapples aim com>  wrote:
> >
> > > I can only really attend to one issue you mention, you say that orca
> > > hangs around the restart orca question. I think this might be an
> > > existing bug http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=614917. Does this
> > > seem to be the problem?
> > >
> > > Following what I have said there, the work around for answering in the
> > > way which causes it, is to wait (after answering yes to start orca on
> > > log in) until orca says "welcome to orca" then alt+tab once to get back
> > > to the initial setup questions and answer the restart question.
> > >
> > > I would appreciate it if someone who knows how gnome prefers to do
> > > things were to look at that bug and suggest which direction to head with
> > > it (should orca try and work round it by setting gconf keys in another
> > > order or should orca's start up stuff be altered so that they don't
> > > start on the key being set).
> > >
> > > Michael Whapples
> > > On 01/-10/-28163 08:59 PM, Labrador wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hi Gnome-Orca-eSpeak-Spd team!
> > > >
> > > > I noticed a few strange things with Orca after upgrading an Ubuntu Hardy
> > > > to
> > > > Ubuntu Lucid (both supposed being stable and LTS):
> > > >
> > > > - while installing during selecting the options the voice sounds like
> > > > very
> > > >     low freq. (4 kHz)
> > > > - I'm still disappointed about the preconfiger:
> > > >     no default select info between brackets or so, especially during the
> > > >     language enumeration (by the way it should be much more efficienet
> > > > to
> > > >     choose a language while using up/down cursorkeys, instead of
> > > > listening
> > > > to
> > > >     55 possible choices; especially for those like me who aren't speech
> > > >     users/lovers (except VoiceOver human-alike voice) I had a headhake
> > > > befor I
> > > >     had to choose the lang;
> > > >     by the way if the enumeration is finished it would be nice to say
> > > > then
> > > >     which voice is set as default for now:
> > > >     anyway this Orca preconfigure may urgently be implemented
> > > > - another bug is that the system hangs after you said Yes to restart
> > > > Orca
> > > > - and inside the orca menu I noticed taht the word Button (in dutch
> > > > Knop)
> > > > is
> > > >     pronounced rapidly or a kind of broken; but only for Preferences
> > > >     (Voorkeuren), not for the other options
> > > >
> > > > That's all, for now I haven't noticed bugs that undermine it, no no, it
> > > > seems to work, but voice still seem to be HEAVY.
> > > >
> > > > Have a nice sunday,
> > > >
> > > > Labrador
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