[Trisquel-devel] New Trisquel 8 development images

[Lee Strobel]

Hi Dave,

Thanks for responding to my testing report.

In terms of the ISO image menu screen, I had a look at it again just
now and the 'Trisquel 7.0' there looks like it is part of the
background image that is being used. In which case, that may need an
artwork change to fix. I agree that that and the boot splash image are
not critical, although as you say, presentation is important and things
would look more professional if they were fixed.

Regarding the screen reader, I have Trisquel 7 installed on my desktop
PC, so I tried it on there. It also doesn't seem to read text or
tooltips on a mouse-over, as with Trisquel 8. You mentioned that it is
possible to configure it to do that; however, I wasn't able to find
that in the gui setup options. In Trisquel 7, as you say, it is
possible to turn off the screen reader in the 'System Settings' >
'Universal Access' panel. However, I can't find a similar option in
Trisquel 8. It has a setup panel labelled 'Assistive Technologies
Preferences'; however, there doesn't appear to be an option there to
enable/disable the screen reader. alt-super-s does appear to work in
Trisquel 8 though, as you suggested.

Regarding the screen magnifier, I read the man page for it (xzoom),
which is not very long. It seems to be behaving pretty much as it
describes. To re-position the zoomed area, you are supposed to click
the LMB inside the magnifier window and then drag it to the area you
want magnified, where it will stay after you release the mouse button,
until you click and drag again from the magnifier window. I also
installed and tried out the Trisquel 7 version. One difference I noted
there was that, on Trisquel 7, when dragging from the magnifier window,
there was a frame visible that followed the mouse cursor to show the
area that would be magnified. However, on T8, this frame didn't seem to
be visible outside of the magnifier window, which made it more
difficult to position. I don't know what might be causing that.

Other than this testing, is there anything else I can do to help
assist? I guess I can try to investigate further into some of these
issues, to see if I can help to resolve them?

Regards,

Lee


On Mon, 2018-01-08 at 15:06 -0500, Dave Hunt wrote:
> I'll address some of your comments in-line, especially regarding the
> screen reader.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On 01/07/2018 07:11 PM, Lee Strobel wrote:
> > 
> > Hi Everyone,
> > 
> > I've just done some testing on the new Trisquel 8 ISO, which I
> > would
> > like to report on. I installed it on an x86 virtual machine using
> > Qemu.
> > 
> >  One comment is that the ISO menu for the disk image still says
> > Trisquel 7'.
> I hope this is an easy text fix, and doesn't get forgotten.
> 
> > 
> > - During boot, the Trisquel logo on the Plymouth boot image has a
> > black
> > box around it, which doesn't look very nice (I think this happened
> > on
> > both the live USB and the final install).
> Though this problem doesn't effect system functionality, it should
> get
> fixed; there's no second chance to make a first impression.
> 
> 
> > 
> > 
> > - I tried the screen reader and it seemed to work ok; however, I do
> > not
> > normally use it and don't know how it normally behaves. It was
> > reading
> > out text as I was typing and describing application menu items. It
> > didn't read out the 'tooltip' description for buttons when I
> > hovered
> > over them; however, I don't know if it should be doing that or not.
> In its default setup, the screen reader does not read tooltips, but5
> fan
> be setup to do so.  I don't normally hover the mouse, so, didn't
> notice
> how this was set; thanks for testing something I overlooked.
> 
> 
> > 
> > - The screen reader was on by default when I booted up for the
> > first
> > time (in contrast to David's report); however, I couldn't figure
> > out
> > how to turn it off in the GUI menu.
> There normally isn't a way to do this in the main menus; you can do
> this
> in system settings->universal access.  If this option is missing,
> that
> should be corrected.  The stand way to kill the screen reader is with
> the keystroke:  'alt+super+s'.  That should work in the login screen
> as
> well; will check.  I wonder if, instead of automatically activating
> the
> screen reader, we play a sound to indicate the desktop is
> ready?  Users
> can, then, turn the screen reader with the standard keys, or not. 
> 
> 
> > 
> > - The screen magnifier seemed to work ok, although I noted similar
> > behaviour to what Pablo reported, where it stops following the
> > mouse if
> > you let go of the button outside its window and you have to go back
> > into its window if you want to 'grab' it again. It doesn't seem
> > like
> > ideal behaviour; however, the magnifier is not something I
> > typically
> > use, so I don't know how it is supposed to behave.
> I need to get more frequent users of the magnifier to try this,
> since,
> I, too, don't know how this is supposed to work.
> 
> 
> > 
> > - Question: why are there two calculators installed by default
> > (Calculator and galculator)?
> I can't find the difference, either; anyone else know this one? 
> 
> 
> > 
> > - One of the options in the GUI menu is 'Icedove --> Thunderbird',
> > which seemed to just open Thunderbird, so I'm not sure what the
> > purpose
> > of that is.
> Maybe a redundancy made by the build system? 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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