Re: GOK

[Simon Bates <simon bates utoronto ca>]

Gunnar, Olaf,

Please see my responses inline.

> From: Olaf Jan Schmidt <olaf amen-online de>
> Organization: Amen-online
> To: gnome-accessibility-list gnome org
> Subject: GOK
> Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:11:06 +0100
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> Nobody answered to Gunnar's questions regarding the Gnome On-screen=20
> Keyboard. Is there a more appropriate place to ask?

I think that this is a good place to ask.

> 
> We really need the GOK running, since our mother has lost her voice and=20
> cannot use the keyboard any more to type phrases into a tts system.

I hope that GOK can be of help to you.

> 
> I hope someone can help us. GOK is running neither in Gnome nor with KDE,=
> =20
> which our mother uses.

It looks to me as though there might be problems with your
at-spi-registryd.  Could you please give us more information about your
GNOME installation.  Where it came from, what version it is and so on. 
Could you also tell us how you are starting your GNOME session?

Simon.

> 
> Olaf.
> 
> Gunnar wrote on Tuesday:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have a problem with starting the Gnome Onscreen Keyboard: It simply
> > reports "** ERROR **: Could not locate registry" --- and that's it.
> >
> > I use SuSE 8.1 with KDE 3.0.4, kernel 2.4.19-4GB, gcc 3.2. As I
> > normally do not use Gnome I had to figure out which libraries I need in
> > order to install GOK. (I ended up installing Gnome completely
> > (including all ...-devel packages), so can you please tell me which
> > libraries/tools are needed for GOK to run?). I also needed to downgrade
> > gettext (SuSE 8.1 has gettext 0.11.x, I downgraded to 0.10.40 from SuSE
> > 8.0).
> >
> > With these done configuration, compilation and installation succeeded.
> > But when starting, GOK told me that it needs gconf2 and wants to be
> > correctly installed. Durung the investigation I found out that the call
> > to "make install" installed the configuration data to the home
> > directory of the user "root". I used "gconftool-2 --install-schema-file
> > gok.schemas" in order to create the configuration for my standard user.
> > However, after I have done this, GOK does also not start.
> >
> > gunnars kcshilb:~> gok
> >
> > ** ERROR **: Could not locate registry
> > aborting...
> > Abgebrochen
> > gunnars kcshilb:~> gconftool-2 --all-entries /apps/gok
> >  resource_directory =3D /opt/gnome2/share/gok
> >  keyboard_directory =3D /opt/gnome2/share/gok
> >  access_method =3D directselection
> >  access_method_directory =3D /opt/gnome2/share/gok
> >  word_complete =3D true
> >  dictionary_directory =3D /opt/gnome2/share/gok
> >  number_predictions =3D 5
> > gunnars kcshilb:~> ls -l /opt/gnome2/share/gok
> > insgesamt 124
> > -rw-r--r--    1 root     root         1550 2002-11-11 12:04
> > alphabet.kbd -rw-r--r--    1 root     root        10086 2002-11-11
> > 12:04
> > automatic-scanning.xam
> > -rw-r--r--    1 root     root        37939 2002-11-11 12:04
> > dictionary.txt -rw-r--r--    1 root     root         3618 2002-11-11
> > 12:04
> > direct-selection.xam-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         3584
> > 2002-11-11 12:04 dwell-selection.xam
> > -rw-r--r--    1 root     root         5658 2002-11-11 12:04 gok.rc
> > -rw-r--r--    1 root     root          332 2002-11-11 12:04
> > goksound1.wav -rw-r--r--    1 root     root          332 2002-11-11
> > 12:04 goksound2.wav -rw-r--r--    1 root     root         8812
> > 2002-11-11 12:04
> > inverse-scanning.xam-rw-r--r--    1 root     root          738
> > 2002-11-11 12:04 launcher.kbd
> > -rw-r--r--    1 root     root         1101 2002-11-11 12:04 main.kbd
> > -rw-r--r--    1 root     root          838 2002-11-11 12:04 manage.kbd
> > -rw-r--r--    1 root     root        17682 2002-11-11 12:04 qwerty.kbd
> > gunnars kcshilb:~>
> >
> > Gunnar Schmi Dt
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