From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eastrmmtao103.cox.net ([68.230.240.9]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1I1xwX-00063g-00 for ; Sat, 23 Jun 2007 01:13:53 -0400 Received: from eastrmimpo02.cox.net ([68.1.16.120]) by eastrmmtao103.cox.net (InterMail vM.7.08.02.01 201-2186-121-102-20070209) with ESMTP id <20070623051322.FVDK14045.eastrmmtao103.cox.net@eastrmimpo02.cox.net> for ; Sat, 23 Jun 2007 01:13:22 -0400 Received: from bonus-eruptus ([72.198.87.190]) by eastrmimpo02.cox.net with bizsmtp id EtDN1X00946QN3s0000000; Sat, 23 Jun 2007 01:13:23 -0400 From: cmbrannon@cox.net (C.M. Brannon) To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Subject: Re: Jeez, what hassle. References: <467C7987.8040405@clearwire.net> Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2007 00:09:55 -0500 In-Reply-To: <467C7987.8040405@clearwire.net> (gaijin@clearwire.net's message of "Sat, 23 Jun 2007 02:38:15 +0100") Message-ID: <87ps3njly4.fsf@cox.net> User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2007 05:13:53 -0000 Gaijin writes: > Well, I get half-way through the Slackware install and then try to > install to the root partition and that's as far as I can go. Is > there a way to install slackware that bypasses all the stupid menus? Or Several years ago, there were several versions of the Slackware installer. One of them lacked all of the menus, and it played very nicely with speakup. I believe the name of the program was setup.tty. Unfortunately, it seems to have disappeared. The menu problem is caused by a little utility named "dialog", that allows one to display dialogs within shell scripts. I think it should be possible to hack dialog so that it displays menus with numbered options, rather than cursor-selectable options. Such menus work well with screenreaders. Perhaps the dialog tool could number its options if an environment variable were set. Has anyone on the list given much thought to this problem? -- Chris