Gnome2 Accessibility: Setting gconf keys

[Denise H. G.]

On 2010/12/10 at 17:06, "Peter Laursen" <orca at tdlsoftware.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi everyone,
> I am almost ready with a version of x11/gnome2 that's taylored for
> accessibility. I have, however, found something I need a bit of guidance
> upon.
> 
> In my current setup, I have installed tinderbox which builds
> "accessibility-enabled" Gnome versions regularly. I have managed to add a
> synthesizer (/usr/ports/audio/espeak) so that blind people has a chance to
> use orca as the screen reader after a successful install. Since Epiphany
> and orca don't work well together, I have replaced Epiphany with Firefox 3
> (which is the only browser that orca supports).
> 
> But in order to enable accessibility support, there is a gconf key that
> needs setting. Specifically, it's the
> /desktop/gnome/interface/accessibility key, which must be set to true. In
> order to have the screen reader/magnifier loaded, the gconf key
> /desktop/gnome/applications/at/screen_reader_enabled must also be set to
> true.
> I have made some simple modifications to the gnome2 Makefile (which are
> only applied if GNOME_ACCESSIBILITY is defined) so that people can use the
> same Makefile to build both versions of Gnome, i.e. the regular version
> and the accessibility version.
> 
> But here is the problem: I would like for the gnome2 Makefile to set the
> two gconf keys automatically. When I run the make install command when
> GNOME_ACCESSIBILITY is defined, the commands to set the gconf keys are
> executed correctly, but when I build the same package inside tinderbox,
> the package isn't created and I get no specific error.
> 
> So the question is fairly simple: How can I set the two gconf keys when
> the package is built so that the user doesn't need to type anything but
> pkg_add -r gnome2-accessibility, restart and have everything set up
> properly?
> 

It seems that system-wide gconf databases are always defaults. What you
change with gconf editors are just user overrides. It means that you
have to edit some schema files residing in /usr/local/etc/gconf/schemas
once the packages are installed.

You can do this by using 'pre-install' thing in the specific port's
Makefile I think.

> I hope I have made everything clear. Once I have found a solution, I shall
> be happy to submit a PR so that this can be integrated into gnome2.
> 
> All the best,
> 
> Peter.
> Tinderbox version: 3.3
> FreeBSD 8.1-i386
> 
> ................ 



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