[Support] status of our new images and a request (fwd)

Sun Feb 14 21:14:40 EST 2016

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Date: Sun, 14 Feb 2016 18:55:58
From: kendell clark <coffeekingms at gmail.com>
To: Simon Eigeldinger <simon.eigeldinger at vol.at>,
     Jude DaShiell <jdashiel at panix.com>, support at sonargnulinux.com
Subject: Re: [Support] status of our new images and a request

hi
We've been wanting to make one for a while. We keep running into either 1, 
issues with speakup when pulse audio is running, been present for years and no 
one will own up to it or 2, brltty, which can work as a console screen reader. 
Right now it doesn't support the espeak fork, called espeak-ng, which sonar has 
switched to using. It's rather embarrassing, and my own personal opinion is 
that all the blind users who care about command line access, storm comes to 
mind, should band together and bug the shit out of the speakup people until 
they fix their bug. It's actually a combination of speakup, and the fact that 
speakup runs in the kernel, which means it runs as root, which means it's not 
subject to user permissions. Why that means it doesn't produce sound I'm not 
sure, but it doesn't. If pulse audio isn't running this just works, but 
otherwise ... shrug.
Thanks
Kendell clark

Simon Eigeldinger via Support wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> ah sorry forgot about the command line users.
> maybe interesting when there will be maybe some console based sonar isos.
> 
> greetings,
> simon
> 
> Am 14.02.2016 um 17:40 schrieb Jude DaShiell:
>> youtube-viewer I use on talkingarch and would install and use that if
>> accessible in graphical environment if accessible.  When I want to
>> search for channels in youtube-viewer I know how to do that.
>> 
>> On Sun, 14 Feb 2016, Simon Eigeldinger via Support wrote:
>> 
>>> Date: Sun, 14 Feb 2016 05:23:12
>>> From: Simon Eigeldinger via Support <support at sonargnulinux.com>
>>> Reply-To: Simon Eigeldinger <simon.eigeldinger at vol.at>
>>> To: support at sonargnulinux.com
>>> Subject: Re: [Support] status of our new images and a request
>>> 
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> Here's my take at the package liss:
>>> 
>>> packages-desktop:
>>> 
>>> maybe getting ried of:
>>> elinks: Is someone using that? seems not to work on my system.
>>> youtube-viewer: never used it used firefox.
>>> rythmbox: replacing it with audacious? gtk ipod tool is installed as
>>> well. no good solution?
>>> 
>>> Maybe packages to be added:
>>> veracrypt from aur: disk and container encryption tool. pretty
>>> accessible.
>>> audacious: maybe better than rythmbox
>>> corebird: twitter client. pretty accessible.
>>> 
>>> packages-gnome: no ideas what to remove or add.
>>> 
>>> packages-mate: no ideas what to remove or add.
>>> 
>>> greetings,
>>> simon
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Am 14.02.2016 um 02:58 schrieb kendell clark via Support:
>>>> hi
>>>> Here goes. Packages-desktop, which is common packages that both gnome
>>>> and mate use, is pasted hear.
>>>> http://paste.pound-python.org/show/4Ykrak83Bhg4BjZF2EmH/. Packages-gnome
>>>> can be seen hear.
>>>> http://paste.pound-python.org/show/o03gJEMO8B4IyN81dOcw/. Packages-mate
>>>> can be seen hear,
>>>> http://paste.pound-python.org/show/RDbaW2X3Legc3zLOt63Y/.
>>>> Thanks
>>>> Kendell clark
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Hadi via Support wrote:
>>>>> Kendell, Is it possible that you pastebin the mentioned files so we
>>>>> could take a look at it? There are some great pastebin sites like
>>>>> slexy.org.
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> On 2/13/2016 2:56 PM, kendell clark via Support wrote:
>>>>>> hi all
>>>>>> Well, it's been long enough. I've been working with phil and teo to
>>>>>> improve the accessibility of calamares, but it's just not there yet
>>>>>> so I'm going to release new gnome and mate images with our old
>>>>>> installer, thus, instead. I've waited more than long enough and I'll
>>>>>> write back in as soon as the 32 bit and 64 bit images are uploaded.
>>>>>> Before I upload the images though, I want to do some serious cleanup
>>>>>> on our software selection. I've tried installing just about every
>>>>>> piece of software under the sun that a blind person might possibly
>>>>>> want on the live image, mainly to show a newcomer exactly what linux
>>>>>> can do. But I think it's more than past time to thin the selection,
>>>>>> at least on the live images, considerably. Would all of you who can,
>>>>>> clone our software repository and look at the Packages-Desktop file,
>>>>>> as well as the main packages-gnome and packages-mate files and tell
>>>>>> me what software can be cut? The image sizes are getting out of
>>>>>> control, they've just surpassed the 2.0 gb mark, and I'd like to trim
>>>>>> that down. To get our git repository, open a terminal and issue the
>>>>>> following commands. Git clone
>>>>>> https://github.com/manjaro/manjaro-tools-iso-profiles.git. Wait for
>>>>>> it to clone, it shouldn't take too long, then change into the folder,
>>>>>> then into the sonar folder. The packages-desktop file is shared
>>>>>> between the gnome and mate profiles, so it's in the shared folder.
>>>>>> The others are in the gnome and mate folders, respectively. Again,
>>>>>> I'll write back in when the images are uploaded but I'll wait on
>>>>>> community feedback so I know what to remove, and once I have that,
>>>>>> I'll then build the images and upload them to sourceforge. I'm really
>>>>>> sorry for the long delay, but I was trying to get calamares into a
>>>>>> usable state, but it's just not there yet. Thank you all of you who
>>>>>> have been patient and waiting for new images, it's definitely been a
>>>>>> little more trouble than last time, that's for sure, grins.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Thanks
>>>>>> Kendell clark
>>>>>> 
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