ubuntu 12.04 daily - my impressions

[Krishnakant mane]

On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 06:14:45AM -0300, José Vilmar Estácio de Souza wrote:
> Hi.
> Related to your problem running gedit as sudo, try rename  the file
> /etc/sudoers.d/a11y-sudo to /etc/sudoers.d/a11y-sudo.bak.
> 
> On 04/18/2012 04:15 AM, Vojtěch Polášek wrote:
> >	Hi,
> >Yesterday, I have successfully installed ubuntu 12.04 daily (probably
> >version from April 17th.
> >I am very satisfied with the way, in which the accessibility was done, I
> >haven't encountered any glitches during installation, I used external
> >harddrive, bootloader has been installed correctly. I am using "ubuntu
> >2D" session, I suppose this is Unity 2D. It seems fairly accessible to
> >me, but I need some things to be clarified.
> >I have encountered only one crash of unity 2D, and installed all
> >available updates, even tried Skype and was able to read EULA and login
> >screen without any problems. I have downloaded latest orca master
> >(3.5.X), compiled and installed using checkinstall.
> >I have tried firefox without any visible problems, gedit, totem, rhythm box.
> >I have encountered these problems:
> >1. Orca has problems with tabs in windows like orca preferences. To
> >reproduce:
> >a) open orca preferences
> >b) move with tab several controls forward
> >c) using shift+tab move backward, untill you reach general tab.
> >d) press left or right arrow - you will skip to some control, but the
> >tab won't change.
> >e) use tab to cycle through all controls and find general tab again.
> >f) press arrow and now it works.
> >Try this on any dialog with tabs.
> >2. I had some problems when setting up manual IPv4 configuration for my
> >wireless network. When I typed IP address, i couldn't move to any other
> >fields, I had to use flat rewiev to get out of it and finish my
> >configuration.
> >3. I have a suspicion, that orca doesn't read refreshing text in gnome
> >terminal - during installation of packages or whatever, but I don't have
> >reliable way of reproducing it.
> >4. In Libreoffice, Orca reads always the previous line and then two
> >times current line. However, when I changed verbosity for soffice to
> >brief, it stopped. When I changed it back to verbose, it was normal as
> >well, so for now I can't reproduce it.
> >5. This is not a bug but just warning - the shortcut for showing desktop
> >has been changed after full upgrade to ctrl+super+d.
> >6. Whe I tried to run gedit as root in gnome terminal, it showed - no
> >display could be found. Whats this?
> >
> >Now I would like you to help me to clarify some misunderstandings:
> >1. What are those dash, HUD, menu etc... I am confused.
> >When I press Super key, i can search applications, files etc. good. Is
> >there any way of dislpaying applications in categories like in gnome?
> >When i press alt+F1, i have some menu with applications and there are
> >mounted file systems shown towards the bottom of it.
> >When I press alt+F2, it is something like run dialog, ok.
> >When I press alt, HUD is not speaking.
> >The menu using alt-f10 is working nicely.
> >I am quite confused.
> >2. Should I try latest gnome (3.4) on this system? It is system for pure
> >testing, so no problem. Is it worth trying?
> >
> 
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