On Tuesday, April 07 2009, Janina Sajka said: > Jeremy Katz writes: > > On Monday, April 06 2009, Janina Sajka said: > > > * My attempt to install F-11 from the Live desktop icon failed. > > > * All I could glean is that Orca had the installation screen > > > * listed as "inaccessible." This is on an x86_64 box using x86_64 > > > * Live. It may not be there in i386. > > > > > > I wqould like to help debug this, but not sure how to proceed. > > > > The problem here (unfortunately) is that we have to run the install as > > root. But the session isn't running as root and hence you don't get any > > of the a11y stuff. > > > > While an argument could be made that the work could be done to separate > > out the frontend and backend of the install and do everything over dbus > > or some other ipc, the root of the matter is that there are too many > > other things in the installer pile that are likely to always end up > > taking priority. So the question is how can you get an app running as > > root from consolehelper to work with the a11y technologies and then I > > can try to push those tweaks as needed > > > OK. I'll try and help chase down the latest and greatest advice on this. > For starters: > > * I believe Ubuntu Live is doing it. I'll get their image and > * check. > > * Fedora's GUI Virt-Manager (System Tools) is doing it > * beautifully. While I'm still having problems learning to set up > * virtual machines, it's not for a11y reasons as this tool is > * working as it should--perhaps 95-98% of the screens. So, > * whatever virt-manager is doing in the gui, is the way to go. I, > * as the ordinary user, am prompted once (and accessibly) for > * root's passwd, and that's that.
virt-manager runs all of the UI as the user and then just communicates with the local libvirt daemon for privileged bits. That's the sort of split that I don't really see making the priority list of the anaconda team > * There's a page, not recently updated, on the Orca wiki on this > * topic: > http://live.gnome.org/Orca/SysAdmin This looks like it might do the trick although some testing is almost certainly needed Jeremy -- Fedora-livecd-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-livecd-list
