On Tuesday, April 07 2009, Janina Sajka said:
Jeremy Katz writes:
> On Monday, April 06 2009, Janina Sajka said:
> > * My attempt to install F-11 from the Live desktop icon failed.
> > * All I could glean is that Orca had the installation screen
> > * listed as "inaccessible." This is on an x86_64 box using x86_64
> > * Live. It may not be there in i386.
> >
> > I wqould like to help debug this, but not sure how to proceed.
>
> The problem here (unfortunately) is that we have to run the install as
> root. But the session isn't running as root and hence you don't get any
> of the a11y stuff.
>
> While an argument could be made that the work could be done to separate
> out the frontend and backend of the install and do everything over dbus
> or some other ipc, the root of the matter is that there are too many
> other things in the installer pile that are likely to always end up
> taking priority. So the question is how can you get an app running as
> root from consolehelper to work with the a11y technologies and then I
> can try to push those tweaks as needed
>
OK. I'll try and help chase down the latest and greatest advice on this.
For starters:
* I believe Ubuntu Live is doing it. I'll get their image and
* check.
* Fedora's GUI Virt-Manager (System Tools) is doing it
* beautifully. While I'm still having problems learning to set up
* virtual machines, it's not for a11y reasons as this tool is
* working as it should--perhaps 95-98% of the screens. So,
* whatever virt-manager is doing in the gui, is the way to go. I,
* as the ordinary user, am prompted once (and accessibly) for
* root's passwd, and that's that.
virt-manager runs all of the UI as the user and then just communicates
with the local libvirt daemon for privileged bits. That's the sort of
split that I don't really see making the priority list of the anaconda
team
* There's a page, not recently updated, on the Orca wiki on this
* topic:
http://live.gnome.org/Orca/SysAdmin
This looks like it might do the trick although some testing is almost
certainly needed
Jeremy