[orca-list] Is anyone still using the Orca console setup?

[Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs igalia com>]

Hey all.

As part of testing the changes I am making to break up the key echo
settings into more configurable parts, I noticed that the preferences
configured in the console setup are not getting written out or used
correctly. So the console setup is pretty much useless. It seems equally
broken in 3.16 and 3.14 and 3.12 and 3.10 (and maybe even earlier, but I
stopped trying).

Therefore, unless something is weird/busted in my environment (which
I've not dug into yet), my guess is that the answer to the question I
asked in the subject is: "No, Joanie, we are not, and we haven't in
quite some time."

Before I debug and fix something which potentially no one is using or
has a need for, I figured I'd ask you all what (if any) purpose console
setup still serves?

As a reminder, to meet various configuration needs you can:

1. Launch the GUI setup with orca -s or orca --setup. This you might
   wish to do if, for instance, you were on a laptop and couldn't use
   Insert+Space to get into the preferences dialog to switch to laptop
   layout.
2. Move or remove your $HOME/.local/share/orca directory if your
   settings are totally borked.
3. Launch Orca with -u/--user-prefs followed by the path for an
   alternate preferences location.

And as another reminder, the only things you were ever able to configure
in the console setup -- when it actually works -- is speech synthesizer,
whether or not to use braille, and the type of keyecho to use.

So what is the use case for which you need to set up Orca (which
requires a GUI desktop environment in which to run) but lack a GUI
desktop environment in which to set it up? And how critical is this use
case given that it looks like it may have been going unmet for quite a
while now without anyone screaming in pain and horror?

Thoughts?
--joanie