running speech-dispatcher-0.7.1 in system mode

[Trevor Saunders]

Hi,

On Wed, Oct 06, 2010 at 10:29:37AM +0200, Hynek Hanke wrote:
> On 5.10.2010 19:16, Trevor Saunders wrote:
> >I think all we need to do however is bring over the option, and may be
> >another command line option or two from opentts to make this work
> >correctly.
> 
>  1) Configure Speech Dispatcher to use inet_sockets
>  2) Have a correct /etc/init.d script
>  3) Have clients run in environment where SPEECHD_ADDRESS
>      is correctly set.
> 
> This is available already. Which other options do you have
> in mind?

I think we should port over the opentts patch to provide a default user
and paths that are system wide to be used with a --system flag.
Personally I think system wide is a better default especially if we
don't allow clients to set other clients settings, but this is really an
issue of how $distro works, so it really should be up to them.

> >what?  I don't really care, and have never looked into ubuntu's issues
> >with pulse
> 
> Trev, we need to care. If major distributions use this, our
> users use this, and they are whom we do it for.

I supose this comes down to what you believe and why you are interested
in this project, and while I respect that other people care how speech
dispatcher and pulse work, and I expect and hope that the people who
deal with accessibility for ubuntu and fedora  will care about pulse and
speech dispatcher and the interactions, I consider it neither an
interest of mine or a responsibility of mine.  I also expect that the
people who care about pulse will respect that not everyone wants to work
that way and that other distros may have good reasons to want to go the
system service route.

> >There are some clients like brltty which as Samuel has already
> >  explained to you _can't_ work this way.
> 
> This is simply not true.

you can say that if you like, but it doesn't make it the case.  Would
you like to suggest a _good_ way to do this?  From here I think opening
dev vcsa is a pretty good way of doing things, it works on *nix and
doesn't require putting a bunch of daemons including one everyone wants
to be rid of between brltty / sbl and dev vcsa, which iirc was your last
proposal.  I'm curious why you are so opposed to speech dispatcher
running as a system service?

Trev

> 
> Best regards,
> Hynek Hanke
> 
> 
> 
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