"R.W.Flurando" <[email protected]> writes:

> Well, it is kind of shame for me to receive a mail informing me that I was
> rejected because of rudeness from bug-guix-owner
> :(
>
> Anyway, I am glad that solution comes out quickly!
>
> Thanks Noé Lopez!
>

No problem!

> An excuse for previous rudeness: I have been unhappy for quite a long
> time because orca never
> worked well on guix in my experience.
> The last time I reported issue, as Marialong2 (you can still see the
> content in the bug report list about
> orca), no solution got. Meanwhile I also tried many times, seemingly
> useless, which made me wonder if orca on guix is just broken without
> custom package definitions from a junior guix hacker.

Looks like it was :P

> And since screen
> reader is not a popular
> topic in any IT community (the relatively most popular solution given by
> search engines is Ubuntu+Orca ... no arch, no nix, not even say guix!), I 
> felt desperate,
> in a sense of being stripping off the right of playing with guix.
>

That’s a shame, accessibility is really important!

> So sorry anyway, didn't really meant to be harsh on those contributing
> to guix or orca, mostly unhappy about
> my own inability of fixing the problem myself (being a complaining boy
> does not fell good)
>
> At last, it feels really nice to see the 2 patches.
> I would love to try them out as a test.
> But how?
> Shall I apply these two patches on a custom branch of local
> guix clone and guix pull guix build orca, liblouis and so on from it?
> Or just wait until the patch email list says merged, then guix pull the
> newest package definitions before reinstalling orca?

Well the patches are merged now so you can just guix pull and
reconfigure.

The method you describe would have probably worked.

>
> Not nessasarily a question requiring answer, by default I would wait
> until an official merge then check if orca works well.
>

Now is the time! Please tell me if it works :)

> Additionally, this email is send with the aid of emacspeak instead of my
> thick beer base glasses:)
>
> Hope you all a nice day.

Nice day to you too,
Noé

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