On Mon, 2008-09-08 at 12:59 -0400, Willie Walker wrote: > It *might* be a gksu/packagemanager interaction problem. Li, is it > possible this might be similar to the Pidgin/gnome-keyring issue? > > Will > > PS - Since people with disabilities need to use package management as > well, I think this is a very serious problem and shouldn't be swept > under the rug by disabling a11y. :-(
Yeah, I agree. For now, let us disable a11y by default as a temporary workaround for that stopper bug. Li and Michal will work together to find the root cause and try to fix it. If we can fix it in time, we will remove our internal patch for that. Thanks, Harry > > Ghee Teo wrote: > > Willie Walker wrote: > >> It was a community decision to enable a11y by default for GNOME > >> development builds. a11y is disabled by default for official GNOME > >> (i.e., even) releases. > >> > > Okay. Got that. Now the question is why vermillion 98 has not A11Y turns > > on by default, given that it is also gnome 2.23.91? > > > > I agree we should turn off A11Y for 99/100 given that we are shipping > > 2.24 extremely close the the edge in terms of schedule, and let that be > > turn on for 2.5.x release cycles. > > > > -Ghee > >> Will > >> > >> Ghee Teo wrote: > >> > >>> Li Yuan wrote: > >>> > >>>> Hi, > >>>> > >>>> We just found a bug that the packagemanager will hang if accessibility > >>>> is enabled: > >>>> > >>>> http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=3312 > >>>> > >>>> Since packagemanager is an important application on OpenSolaris, and the > >>>> accessibility will be enabled by default on build 99/100 (they are still > >>>> gnome 2.23), > >>>> > >>> Is this the community decision or Sun's decision to be enabled by default? > >>> > >>> -Ghee > >>> > >>>> I wonder if we should disable accessibility on this two build. > >>>> > >>>> Thanks, > >>>> Li > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >> > > > -- Harry.Lu at Sun.COM Solaris Desktop Group, Sun Microsystems Tel: +86-10-82618200 ext. 82870/ +86-10-62673870 Fax: +86-10-62780969
