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Bug 337063 - Provide the ability to specify an alternate .orca location.
Provide the ability to specify an alternate .orca location.
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: orca
Classification: Applications
Component: general
0.2.x
Other All
: Normal enhancement
: FUTURE
Assigned To: Rich Burridge
Orca Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2006-04-03 18:04 UTC by Rich Burridge
Modified: 2006-11-05 01:12 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---

Attachments
Patch to implement this feature. (3.10 KB, patch)
2006-11-02 16:04 UTC, Rich Burridge 		none Details | Review

Description Rich Burridge 2006-04-03 18:04:14 UTC 
In the wouldn't-it-be-nice department, is the ability to run
Orca automatically from something like a USB drive when it's
inserted, with the users own preferences also saved on the
removalable media.

In order to do this, Orca would need to be able to get it's
user settings from an alternate location other than the ~/.orca
directory.

The suggested approach would be to have a command line option 
to Orca to enable this.
Comment 1 Rich Burridge 2006-11-02 16:04:45 UTC 
Created attachment 75851 [details] [review]
Patch to implement this feature.

This patch introduces a new "-u dir" command line option for Orca
which can specify an alternate location for the equivalent of the
user's ~/.orca directory.

This now means that you can plug in a thumb drive into a USB port
on your computer and do:

/usr/bin/orca -u /media/usbdisk/.orca

and Orca will read your customized Orca preferences whereever you go.

The next step is to work out how to put Orca on that same
thumb drive and automatically start it via an 
(.autorun|autorun|autorun.sh) file on that media.
Comment 2 Rich Burridge 2006-11-02 16:08:41 UTC 
Changes checked into CVS HEAD. I'd appreciate it if others could try this
before I close out the bug. Thanks.
Comment 3 Rich Burridge 2006-11-05 01:12:33 UTC 
Closed as FIXED. If others discover problem with this, please let me know.