Now that Oneiric is running with Unity and Orca...

[Dave Hunt]

Hi,

Now that I have Oneiric running on my Asus 1015PE netbook, with Orca, I 
can put down my first impressions.

After installation, I added the extra a11y source and did 'sudo apt-get 
update' and 'sudo apt-get upgrade', to bring the system up to date.  
Next, I did 'sudo shutdown -r now', to force a restart.  As others have 
reported, Orca will not start automatically, even when it is added to 
the startup applications list.  I must start Orca from a terminal, like 
this:  'orca --replace &'.  Maybe the 'replace' isn't needed, since it's 
not running?  Anyway, this gets Orca going.  The terminal is filled with 
Python trace-back and warning messages.  Trying to read the terminal 
with flat review generates yet more.  Also, having installed the extra 
a11y, and running Orca in the terminal, I find that the application 
menus, reachable by hitting 'f10', no longer speak.  This seems to be 
session-wide.  I can still use applications, as long as I  don't need 
the menus.  If, for instance, I want to adjust volume, I have to start 
the 'sound preferences' applet, in order to reach the controls.  This is 
inconvenient, but not a show-stopper.  I would like to get this 
installation of Unity working as well as is now possible.


Any thoughts?



Dave  Hunt