On Friday 04 February 2011 00:41:26 Felix Miata wrote:
On 2011/02/03 23:32 (GMT+0200) Stan Goodman composed:
The solution is very simple, and does indeed involve the clock widget. The General tab of the Digital Clock Settings contains only a single inocuous setting, which is how often to Speak the Time, which had somehow got set to something other than "Never". (Full disclosure: There is nobody else here but me. Evidently I inadvertently changed it.)
There should be no such setting available to inadvertently change if the required kttsd it depends on to function is not installed. If it is or was, that would be a bug that should be fixed.
The least that KDE could have done would be to put a little remark on that page, where there is plenty of space, that the setting depends on the presence of KTTSD. Perhaps they reasoned that anybody would understand that there has to be a speech generator in order to speak the time -- which is true in retrospect. But if you haven't made the setting purposefully, you are not going to have it in mind when the error pops up, and when someone (Anton) suggests the clock without mentioning the speak- the-time thing, you aren't likely to have any reaction other than "what the Hell has the clock got to do with text-to-speech? What has the clock got to do with text?" Not all developers are able to imagine themselves in the position of a user who has not been living with the program from the beginning; but that's not news. -- Stan Goodman Qiryat Tiv'on Israel -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org