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--- Begin Message ---
Package: calamares
Version: Add accessibility support
Severity: wishlist
Tags: a11y
Hello Jonathan,
on the Debian-live mailing list [1] the question was raised to add an
alternative installer inside the live image.
In the following replies, the question was raised whether that installer would
have accessibility support, since Calamares doesn't have any.
Would it be possible/feasible to add accessibility support to Calamares?
With kind regards,
Roland Clobus
[1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-live/2022/08/msg00017.html
-- System Information:
Debian Release: bookworm/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'testing-debug'), (50, 'unstable')
merged-usr: no
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 5.18.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8),
LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages calamares depends on:
ii kpackagetool5 5.97.0-1
pn libboost-python1.74.0 <none>
ii libc6 2.34-4
ii libcrypt1 1:4.4.28-2
ii libgcc-s1 12.1.0-8
ii libkf5configcore5 5.97.0-2
ii libkf5coreaddons5 5.97.0-1
ii libkf5package5 5.97.0-1
ii libkf5parts5 5.97.0-1
pn libkpmcore11 <none>
pn libkpmcore12 <none>
ii libparted2 3.5-1
ii libpwquality1 1.4.4-1+b1
ii libpython3.10 3.10.6-1
ii libqt5core5a 5.15.4+dfsg-5
ii libqt5dbus5 5.15.4+dfsg-5
ii libqt5gui5 5.15.4+dfsg-5
ii libqt5network5 5.15.4+dfsg-5
ii libqt5qml5 5.15.4+dfsg-4
ii libqt5quick5 5.15.4+dfsg-4
ii libqt5quickwidgets5 5.15.4+dfsg-4
ii libqt5svg5 5.15.4-2
pn libqt5webkit5 <none>
ii libqt5widgets5 5.15.4+dfsg-5
ii libqt5xml5 5.15.4+dfsg-5
ii libstdc++6 12.1.0-8
ii libyaml-cpp0.7 0.7.0+dfsg-8
ii os-prober 1.81
Versions of packages calamares recommends:
ii btrfs-progs 5.18.1-1
ii squashfs-tools 1:4.5.1-1
calamares suggests no packages.
--- End Message ---
--- Begin Message ---
Hi Roland
Would it be possible/feasible to add accessibility support to Calamares?
Unfortunately it wouldn't be as simple as toggling a switch in a config
file, it would likely need quite a bit of work (depending on which
accessibility feature is needed, at least since the last upload the
window scaling on hidpi should work, which is one small step). Another
problem is that calamares runs as another user than the live desktop
session ('root' as apposed to 'live'), which makes it harder for other
apps to peek inside that window (especially on Wayland).
My ideal vision for an installer is that the installer UI runs
completely as a normal user, and then it interacts with an installer
agent that is started as a service during boot, which can then handle
the actual worker processes.
It might be useful for people to file specific bugs on this on the
calamares upstream site, from the Debian side, we don't really work
directly on Calamares features (also, if anyone is reading and have the
skill and time to contribute to calamares, they are looking for a new
maintainer *hint* *hint*.
-Jonathan
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