orca doesn't start

ok, i found the problem

gnome-orca needs to be started in a gnome-session with accessibility feature enabled.

ihmo ubuntu shouldn't have a gnome with accessibilty feature enabled, but probably this should be documented somewhere. My english skills are <0, so i'm not the right person who can do this. Feel free to ask me all informations you need.

Hello Riccardo,

Thanks for testing this. It is known to us that Orca does not behave properly when started from the menu. The background for that is that as a tool for blind people it was not designed to be launched from a menu.

We are currently testing some different solutions to this. Prefereably we want the setup GUI to appear from the menu, or we might simply remove vit from the menu.

We don't ship gnome with the accessibility features enabled, just installed.

Il giorno mar, 05/09/2006 alle 09.55 +0000, Henrik Nilsen Omma ha
scritto:

hello Henrik,

> We are currently testing some different solutions to this. Prefereably
> we want the setup GUI to appear from the menu, or we might simply remove
> vit from the menu.

atm, as you say, you can start the GUI setup only in accessibility mode.
No idea how to remove this check, and if this can be useful.

what you can do is change in the .destkop the Exec: fiek with an ubuntu
script (the name is at your choice) which change a gconf key
(accessibility); logaut/login/; and then add by default orca at startup

ok. this is a hack, probably you should add a info-dialog before,
ok :( blind people cannot read it, probably you could integrate it with
festival.

> ** Changed in: gnome-orca (Ubuntu)
> Importance: Untriaged => Low
> Status: Confirmed => In Progress
>
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ciao,
giskard

Orca does now start from the menu (though we will move it from there to gnome-at-prefs)