[manjaro-dev] calamares, what to do?

[Philip Müller]

Hi Kendell,

please sumarize the needs you have and open an issue at the calamares
bugtracker. Regarding the freezing I've to check if I can find the bug.

For that I need a working sonar profile I should try.

greez
Phil

On 12.05.2016 12:44, kendell clark wrote:
> hi all
> I've been trying for the past several months to switch completely over
> from thus to calamares. I keep running into problems though and keep
> having to  delay it. But this latest thus bug has made it imperative
> that calamares accessibility get fixed. The installer will get to the
> keyboard layout screen, and then freeze completely. I used to be able to
> restart orca and it would read again, but this time the installer itself
> stops responding. It really won't take much to get calamares accessible
> to orca. One of the biggest problems right now which will likely take a
> lot of working together is the fact that calamares is not accessible in
> the mate desktop. In fact, no apps launched as root are accessible in
> mate. Calamares isn't accessible in gnome either, but I think that might
> be because of issues in the installer. Phil, teo, bernhard, would you
> guys mind joining the orca list to talk with joanmeri diggs, the lead
> orca developer to try to solve this? I don't expect you guys to do all
> the work by any means, I'll help out in any way I can, testing, etc. 
> I'm just about to email joanmeri privately to see if she can test the
> installer and give me an idea of what it's doing and sending to the
> accessibility subsystem. If you decide to join the orca list, you might
> want to do it on a distro related, not a personal account, so that
> you're not flooded. The orca list is usually fairly low traphic, but can
> sometimes have several dozen messages a day. You could of course email
> joanmeri privaty at jdiggs at igalia.com if that would be easier. I'm
> trying to get the ball rolling hear. This problem of apps not being
> accessible when run as root is probably going to take coordination
> between you guys, me, joanmeri, and the mate people to fix but it's
> critical that it does get fixed, because otherwise I can't use calamares
> in our mate edition. I hope I'm not overloading your todo lists with
> this, and I"m sorry to be doing this with little notice, but I need help
> from people who can see on this, because calamares is just a blank
> window to me. I can't see well enough to know what it's supposed to say.
> Thanks
> Kendell Clark
> 
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