GNOME 2.4.0 is nearly complete, however there is no accessability tool ebuilds. So it is impossible to use the assistive technology. The accessability tools that need ebuilds are: gnome-mag, gnome-speech and gok. This should/will complete the set of GNOME 2.4.0 packages. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Download packages off gnome.org 2. Create ebuilds for them 3. Place them in /usr/portage/gnome-extra/ Actual Results: I will be happy. Expected Results: Already been in portage because I requested this many times on IRC and the forums. :)
yep, it is on our todo list ...
you use it zeitgeist ? I know about completeness, but it's pretty useless to request things you don't use from an esthetical 'completeness' p.o.v. which gives us extra pressure now for nothing if nobody uses it. I never had one request for our support in this, only people asking for updates on packages they don't even know what their function is because they saw some announcement. I declare hereby that gnome-2.4 meta is not the same as the desktop/developers release as released by the gnome team. All this doesn't mean i don't want to support accessibility, it only means that we will do it when our schedule allows us to.
There are ebuilds for all the accessibility-related packages in Portage now, marked as ~x86. Please test them. :) You need to emerge gok and gnopernicus; they are the two packages that are part of the official Gnome 2.4 release. Thanks
*** Bug 31623 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Went into 2.4.1 under accessibility USE flag. Still i got no indication that anyone has requested this besides gnome being 'incomplete' without it, i got a feeling most requesters of these packages do not even know what it is good for. If i'm wrong i'd really like to talk to people actually using the accessibility features and work on how to improve our support for it if needed.
dmwaters and I are working (mostly dmwaters;) on this, as she quite badly needs it. (She's blind, using screen-reader to access things. There are some issues with java-acces-bridge that needs to be debugged. Mainly mozilla + openoffice (mozilla falls down on epiphany here too). Though its pretty hard to debug in the two cases where a) she can't see what goes wrong. b) I can't test due to not having a screenreader.
