Orca now running on AMD64 with latest Edgy installation

2006-09-08 Thread Roland Zitzke
Hi, just wanted to report that I managed to run Orca, Gnopernicus and gnome-speech (the former trouble maker) on an AMD64 Edgy system by simply using the latest installation packages - great work. By the way: is there any (planned) facility to dynamically change localisation in Orca? The

Re: Orca now running on AMD64 with latest Edgy installation

2006-09-08 Thread Willie Walker
Hi Roland: Glad to hear the gnome-speech thing just worked itself out without requiring mods to gnome-speech. :-) Dynamic language detection/switching is definitely an interesting thing to consider adding to Orca. Right now, however, it's not really on the core team's radar screen - we're

Re: Orca now running on AMD64 with latest Edgy installation

2006-09-08 Thread Bill Haneman
Willie Walker wrote: Hi Roland: Glad to hear the gnome-speech thing just worked itself out without requiring mods to gnome-speech. :-) Dynamic language detection/switching is definitely an interesting thing to consider adding to Orca. Right now, however, it's not really on the core team's

Re: Orca now running on AMD64 with latest Edgy installation

2006-09-08 Thread Roland Zitzke
Hi Bill, In case someone gets motivated, I think the relevant AT-SPI methods (for determining the language/locale of UI components), and gnome-speech methods (for determining the locales/langs which a TTS engine can speak) are these: Accessibility::Application:getLocale (the locale of

Re: Orca now running on AMD64 with latest Edgy installation

2006-09-08 Thread Bill Haneman
Roland Zitzke wrote: Hi Bill, In case someone gets motivated, I think the relevant AT-SPI methods (for determining the language/locale of UI components), and gnome-speech methods (for determining the locales/langs which a TTS engine can speak) are these:

Re: Orca now running on AMD64 with latest Edgy installation

2006-09-08 Thread Willie Walker
All-in-all, it seems like we have the technology to do this. What we need now is a user experience based upon what real users expect, and someone experienced in the art to [help] do the work. :-) Thanks! Will On Fri, 2006-09-08 at 17:40 +0100, Bill Haneman wrote: Roland Zitzke wrote: Hi