[manjaro-dev] calamares-dev is nearly ready for the blind

[kendell clark]

hi all
Over the past couple of months, I've been working with ... is it teo? to 
improve the accessibility of our new installer, called calamares. I had 
no idea there was a calamares-dev package available in the community 
repo, so installed it on my machine to test. It's a lot more accessible 
than the current stable version, with one problem. As soon as the first 
"next" button is pressed, it segfaults. This isn't critical, but I would 
like to have this installer fully accessible by march, when we're due 
for our first release this year. I am going to release an emergency 
gnome and mate image, but they'll use thus since calamares isn't ready 
yet. I'm writing in to let everyone know that I'll get whatever info you 
guys need to make calamares usable by us, and to fix the segfault. The 
only clue  I have so far is that during the startup, before it reads the 
/etc/calamares/settings file, it gives an error of yaml-cpp: bad 
conversion. No clue what that means, and it doesn't give a file name, 
but every little bit helps. Sonar images now speak and log on to their 
perspective desktops, so I'll be releasing  new images this weekend. My 
question is, are we set up to be distributed through the manjaro website 
or should I use our sourceforge account until this can be set up? If 
this is going to be set up? I've been telling our suport list that we're 
eventually going to be distributed alongside manjaro, but I'm not sure 
if this is going to happen. It's certainly a goal of ours, since we're 
basically little more than a talking version of manjaro with added 
software. Once I know how I"m distributing the images, I can write an 
announcement to our suport list and upload the images. To everyone who 
helped me get this far, thank you very, very much. I've finally solved a 
problem that's been bugging me for months, and couldn't have done it 
without all of you.
Thanks
Kendell clark