Experiences with live cd 20060429.

[Al Puzzuoli]

Hi all,
Just wanted to post my experiences as of Saturday's live cd; but before doing so, I would once again like to express my extreme appreciation for all the time and effort being put in by the accessibility team.  I know that the CD is still a work in progress, and that the issues I'm experiencing are most likely documented and already being addressed, but just thought I would bring them up here to be sure.

First, the good news is that Festival now works!

As was discussed a few days ago, the accessibility flag is not being enabled; However, this issue can be gotten around fairly easily, by letting Gnopernicus enable the flag and then logging off the active user.

The first issue I ran into was that upon logging back in and attempting to run gnopernicus, I got all kinds of instability involving gnome-panel.  This issue is not unique to the live cd, and impacts Orca as well.  The only workaround I know of for the time being is to run gnopernicus  either from gnome-terminal, or from the console.

So basically, I found that at present, it is possible after a bit of fiddling to get up and running with an accessible desktop via the live cd;However, I  came up against a show stopper when I attempted to install the system to my hard drive.  I  found that the installer's window wasn't being read at all by gnopernicus, and after looking at the properties for the installer's desktop item, I noticed that the command to launch the program makes use of gksudo.  The problems posed by sudo have been discussed on this list and are also outlined in the following bug:

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=163132
However, that bug has been opened for quite some time, so I'm wondering whether as a short to intermediate term solution, it would be possible to change the command for the installer so as not to require sudo?


Again, this was saturday's CD, and perhaps some changes have been made since then, but that brings me to another question.  Is there any way to see a log of changes made to each daily release before actually deciding whether to download it?

Thanks,

--Al
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