Re: GNOME 2.16 freeze break requested for two Orca bugs...

[Kjartan Maraas <kmaraas broadpark no>]

tir, 29,.08.2006 kl. 17.32 -0400, skrev Willie Walker:
> Hi All:
> 
> Many apologies for this freeze break request.  I was up late last night
> tracking down problems in other modules and ended up not getting to
> these in time for the code freeze.  :-( I'm requesting to be able to
> apply the following patches to the Orca module for GNOME 2.16.  There
> are no associated string changes with either patch:
> 
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=353467: When launched from a
> GUI menu or other launcher, text-based setup cannot be accessed
> 
> The impact of this bug is that the user will be very very confused when
> they launch Orca from a GUI mechanism (e.g., the "Run Application"
> dialog or a launch menu) and Orca falls into text-setup mode.  The
> resolution is to spawn a gnome-terminal and launch orca from within it
> when appropriate.  We've already seen a number of questions regarding
> this on the ubuntu-accessibility mailing list, so it's a high visibility
> problem.
> 
This sounds good to me, but someone else will have to vouch for the code
doing what the description says :-)

> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=353476: Orca does not fallback
> properly to a working synthesis engine
> 
> The impact of this is that an ill-behaved gnome-speech driver, or one
> that is installed without its associated speech engine(s) in place, can
> cause Orca to be speechless when it is started.  This is not good and is
> also very confusing and difficult for users to debug.  The resolution is
> to attempt to fallback to a working gnome-speech synthesis driver and
> use it if one exists.
> 
I'm ok with this one too with the same caveat as above.

�/2? :-)

Cheers
Kjartan