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

[Javier Hernández <javiube gmail com>]

El 03/03/11 09:15, Michael Whapples escribió:
> 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.

HI all!

After some patches ... we have a good solution on this, and patch has 
been commited to master.

The main problem was in startup phase, so we added some logic around 
bypassSetup option and startup workflow.

We'll appreciate some feedback from people on the list and, of course, 
people that has been reported that bug using this thread ;)

Thanks!

> 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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