Re: [orca-list] Orca and settings in the GDM screen

[Michael Whapples <mwhapples aim com>]

Hello,
Good to know my thoughts were going down the right line.

As for whether there is a bug in bugzilla, see bug 637780. Look forward 
to seeing your patch.

Michael Whapples
On -10/01/37 20:59, Javier Hernández wrote:
> Hi all!
>
> El 02/03/11 08:34, Michael Whapples escribió:
> > Might it be the --no-setup option which is used to launch orca for 
> > GDM which prevents the settings dialog appearing?
>
> You got the clue!
>
> I saw this thread and I took a look to the code. As Michael said, the 
> problem is the --no-setup option, what is avoiding Orca for showing 
> the preferences UI.
> Internally, if --no-setup option is given we're setting bypassSetup, 
> but we're not controlling if there are user settings already saved.
>
> At this moment I have a patch and I need to show up to Joanie and see 
> if she accepts my solution, but, we're on the clue, so, we'll have a 
> patch for this issue soon.
>
> Has anybody opened a bug for this in bugzilla [1]? If yes, could you 
> please point me to that bug?
>
> Regards!
>
>
>
> [1] http://bugzilla.gnome.org
>
> > Anyway, I am getting some ideas now what I might look at.
> >
> > Michael Whapples
> > On -10/01/37 20:59, Steve Holmes wrote:
> > > I think what is happening is the default settings keep getting written
> > > back to the settings as if they never existed.  I'm not sure why this
> > > is happening.  I never looked into that part of it so far.  It seems
> > > like to me that the initialization logic is being invoked every time
> > > Orca is run, even if the configurations already exist.  But as I write
> > > outloud, I realize Orca isn't popping you into the preferences dialog
> > > every time though so maybe what I just said may be contradictory.  In
> > > any case, the settings are being over-written every time the program
> > > starts.  Next time I go try to use gdm to run Orca, I'll have to
> > > verify if the date/time of the settings files are being updated too.
> > >
> > > On Tue, Mar 01, 2011 at 02:42:24PM +0000, Michael Whapples wrote:
> > > > I can confirm that orca can write to the settings file:
> > > > * It worked fine with 2.32.1
> > > > * The git version creates the user-settings.conf file
> > > > * When I manually modify the user-settings.conf file orca still
> > > > reverts the settings back to the defaults.
> > > > * ls -l /var/lib/gdm/.local/share/orca/user-settings.conf tells me
> > > > the gdm user has permission to write to the file.
> > > >
> > > > Michael Whapples
> > > > On -10/01/37 20:59, Halim Sahin wrote:
> > > > > Hi Michael,
> > > > > Have you checked that your orca has the right write access in your 
> > > > > gdm
> > > > > folder?
> > > > >
> > > > > What happens, when you copy your orca setting manualy?
> > > > > BR.
> > > > > Halim
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