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

[Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs igalia com>]

Hi Parham.

Hope you don't mind my CCing the Orca list so that we can have all the
opinions where people can see them.

--joanie

On 11/10/2015 12:26 AM, Parham Doustdar wrote:
> I personally used it once, and that was when I typed "orca" in the
> console and Orca asked me for keyboard echo and such before starting,
> every time. So, no, I don't use it since I figured it doesn't work, and
> I don't need it at all.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> On 11/10/2015 8:47 AM, Joanmarie Diggs wrote:
> > 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
> >
> >
> >
> >
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