Public bug reported: A current discussion on orca-list indicates that some blind users are finding Orca's use of gsettings to be problematic:
The most accessible Linux version to use with Orca? https://mail.gnome.org/archives/orca-list/2020-March/msg00233.html Here are some relevant snippets: > ubuntu certainly fails here, the developers locked down orca configuration attaching it to gsettings and making it impossible to configure inside orca. > You can't modify orca configuration settings in ubuntu-mate and save those modifications. You have to use gsettings to get at orca configuration and change them so they're saved. Garden variety ubuntu in 19.10 does the same thing. In earlier versions of ubuntu this was not the case, you could make your changes inside orca and save those changes. > You never heard of gsettings before since using it is about as complex as editing a windows registry. The gsettings along with dconf-editor controls the configuration on graphical user interface systems other configuration files you might find in certain directories does not. In the case of ubuntu 19.10 orca got strait jacketed into gsettings. This was not the case in earlier ubuntu versions though. > I tried installing ubuntu 19.10 a few minutes ago the desktop version since I couldn't get a download url for ubuntu-mate.org and couldn't even bring up orca and this was after I verified the download. That cured me of ubuntu I'm pretty sure permanently. running alt-super-s didn't work and alt-f2 orca also failed and even alt-f2 screen-reader failed as well. I waited until all disk action had stopped to run those commands too. ** Affects: orca (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1867971 Title: gsettings dependency is problematic To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/orca/+bug/1867971/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
