Re: [orca-list] The Orca Wiki, building Orca in Arch Linux, and a Question about Open Solaris

[Steve Holmes <steve holmes88 gmail com>]

I'm an active Arch user and would be willing to update the wiki where
necessary.  My thing lately has been to figure the difference with
GNOME 3 as my system has gone through multiple rolling updates since
the time of my "bare metal install" from over two years ago.  I just
recently upgraded another Arch box to GNOME 3 and had to go through
the PulseAudio crippling drill to get Orca talking again.  That worked
for me so now I need to come up with some clear and concise
instructions to accomplish this.  Actually from what I recalled in the
past with Arch, all I did was install gnome and gnome-extra and then
do a 'startx' and run Orca manually and go through the setup.  this
might vary now with GNOME 3 coming up for the first time; not sure
yet.

I think the way to really clearly document a process, I should do a
bare metal install of Arch Linux on a stripped machine and write down
every step I take.  So often, we have to bounce off the walls,
guessing certain steps til it works and after that, you can't recall a
clear list of what exactly worked and what steps were experimental and
not worked.

Sorry for the verbosity of this reply but some excuses might be in
order here.  Let me see what I can add to the wiki.  I wrote some
stuff a while back about getting gdm to talk on Arch but dunno if
those instructions are valid for GNOME 3 or not.  I just startx here.

On Tue, Sep 06, 2011 at 04:46:10PM -0400, Storm Dragon wrote:
> Hi,
> You know, that subject line seems longer than it is lol. So, I went to
> the Orca wiki to find out what all is needed to build Orca on Arch Linux
> because I want to build the Desktop version. There are no instructions
> there for Arch though. So, if one of our more advanced Arch users feels
> like sending me instructions I would be glad to edit the wiki. Of
> course, if you want to edit the wiki yourself that would be great too,
> but I am certainly open to doing it.
> Also, isn't Open Solaris a Casualty of Oracle? There are still build
> instructions for it on the wiki though. shouldn't these be changed to
> something else, like building for Open Indiana?
> Thanks
> Storm
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