Tyrylu

This is a page listing the development activity of Lukáš Tyrychtr (e. g. tyrylu) related to the Fedora project and all related software.

It is there for a reference and in the hope that summarizing the things might provoke someone to stumble upon it and, if everything is ideal, help in some way.

Currently in progress

Festival upgrade

• Implementation of this proposal: Changes/Update festival to 2.5
• Packages are working (confirmed by Pavel Vlček at least on two machines), currently in copr: https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/tyrylu/festival-reborn/
• First of them, speech_tools has a successful review at: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1592220
• Currently trying to get a sponsor to include it and do the rest of the needed packages then

Anaconda accessibility testing

• Discovered an accessibility bug (alright, it was a confirmation of a bug report from a friend) and a probable cause, reported as: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1592361
• Sitting there without a comment

BRLTTY and Selinux

• Fixed a few missing Selinux rules which were breaking BRLTTY (fix confirmed to work by a colleague), reported as: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1586003
• Some status changes, no discussion, but at least someone noticed the bug

Gnome tweaks

• Added some controls related to sound theme settings in this MR:https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-tweaks/merge_requests/7
• Sitting there with an automatic merge possibility showing in the Gitlab UI, seems nobody noticed it though

Ideas, in various states of research

Beep on disk encryption password prompt

• In state of an idea and some research
• Should: beep on prompt display and on success and failure of the password check
• It is not obvious how to reliably generate a tone in the initrd environment - PC speakers aren't as ubiquitous as they were
• The display event could be handled in the password prompt agent
• Failure and success sounds would probably require changing systemd-cryptsetup or some sort of other unpopular thing

Orca and reading apps running under root in other desktop environments than Gnome

• For some reason it works under Gnome 3
• Broken under Mate and probably in other desktop environments
• Sometimes can be worked around by passing GTK_MODULES environment variable to the process, however this has no chance getting into upstream, the idea failed horribly in polkit: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=107083, would probably fare in the same way when suggested for addition to the default /etc/sudoers at least
• The solution will very likely require copying the Gnome 3 magical trick in other environments