Hi. I can also confirm that at least on a couple of Sid boxes, the beep is present. It has been their since at least Sarje, and possibly earlier. Ditto for Fedora-based distros. As far as Orca talking at login, it was my understanding that accessible login under Debian-based distros was still broken. But then again, for me, that's not really a problem, as I don't need that at the moment. Once QT and kDE apps are accessible in the mainstream, as GDM actually provides a mechanism to choose which session a user wishes to login too. This may bee accomplished by the use of a Braille display, but of course, not all users have one, or may not actually know how to read Braille.
--Erik On Thu, 19 Feb 2009, Mario Lang wrote: > Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 17:52:40 +0100 > From: Mario Lang <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: wishlist: tamtam at login is blindfriendlier than silence ... > Resent-Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 17:06:10 +0000 (UTC) > Resent-From: [email protected] > > Aldo <[email protected]> writes: > > > - all older Debian distros do have a login bongo/conga/tamtam/whatever; now > > it seems to have been replaced by nothing, and nothing = silence, and > > silence = unfriendly for us it at that moment you hadn't Orca > > active/installed > > I am not quite sure what you are talking about. Are you refering > to a sound signal played when GDM is ready to take your user/password info, > or are you looking for a sound to be played after login is complete? > > On my sid box, I always had a PC speaker based beep when GDM prompts > me for a password. This hasn't gone away as far as I can tell. > Maybe your new installation has the PC speaker not working? > > -- > CYa, > ⡍⠁⠗⠊⠕ | Debian Developer <URL:http://debian.org/> > .''`. | Get my public key via finger mlang/[email protected] > : :' : | 1024D/7FC1A0854909BCCDBE6C102DDFFC022A6B113E44 > `. `' > `- <URL:http://delysid.org/> <URL:http://www.staff.tugraz.at/mlang/> > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] > > [email protected] SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org
