Pulseaudio : lots of issues, how can I help?

[Janina Sajka]

Colin Walters writes:
> On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 10:11 PM, Colin Walters <walters at verbum.org> wrote:
> > On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 9:57 PM, Janina Sajka <janina at rednote.net> wrote:
> >> Chuck Anderson writes:
> >>>
> >>> Audio works on the GDM login screen.  Orca starts and reads the login
> >>> window to me...
> >>
> >>
> >> What Fedora? And, what GDM? This worked, hmm, perhaps 60-70% for me back
> >> in Fedora 8. But GDM has gone through a massive rewrite since then. None
> >> of the users I'm in touch with have gotten this to work on F-9 or later.
> >
> > I just tried this too with GDM, and got speech too.  I right clicked
> > in the lower left of the screen, checked the "Read text" option, and
> > moused over and heard sound.  Have you filed a bug about this issue?
> 
> Incidentally you should be able to enable this by default so sightless
> people don't have the bootstrapping problem of enabling TTS.  There is
> some documentation on the new GDM configuration here:
> http://live.gnome.org/GDM/2.22/Configuration
> 
I'm sure personal machines will be set up with this as a default, once
all the bugs are cleared. One known issue, last it was working in F-8,
is that you could get speech via GDM, or speech on the Desktop after
login--but not both. Rather a bug.

Also, the intent is that Ctrl-s needs to be available so that any GNOME
desktop, whether your sister's, your neighbor's, the university's, or
the local coffee stand's, can work via a reliable "gesture."

Janina

> Unfortunately GConf is overly complex to use (a bug we would like to
> fix), but this page describes how to use GConf to set GDM's
> system-wide settings:
> 
> https://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-4-Manual/desktop-guide/s1-ddg-intro-gconf-default-mandatory.html
> 
> So for example:
> sudo gconftool-2 --direct --config-source
> xml:readwrite:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults --type=boolean -s
> /apps/gdm/simple-greeter/accessibility/screen_reader_enabled true
> 
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