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

[Vincent Untz <vuntz gnome org>]

Hi,

Le mercredi 30 août 2006, à 00:50, Kjartan Maraas a écrit :
> 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 :-)

I've added a small comment to the bug that you can ignore (minor
nitpick).

Let's say that Kjartan approved this, so approval 2 of 2 :-)

> > 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.

Looks fine to me => approval 2 of 2.

(This brings an interesting question for the release team: approving
code freeze will be harder with more languages in the desktop suite. Eg:
I'm not sure I'd be able to approve a code freeze for some C# code, and
a few months ago, I wouldn't have been able to approve a code freeze for
python code... How can we make this easier for us?)

Vincent

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