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it's odilia, the odilia screenreader! finally, the long awaited by some, version 0.1.0 is out, it has been for afew hours now, but as they say, the news are only old if you heard them at least once, so for most people they should be fresh. If you want to check it out, feel free to do so, dropping bug reports as you find them, never hesitate to pop things in that issue tracker, or come talk to us in our matrix space, #odilia:stealthy.club, or irc, #odilia:libera.chat, #odilia-oftopic:libera.chat and #odilia-dev:libera.chat
the releace announcement can be found at https://odilia.app/news/release_0-1-0/
finally, we're here! A big thank you to the community who waited patiently for this release, as well as everyone who contributed, in one way or another, to the project's growth, we're here, we hear you, and we'll never forget our community! let's show the world it can indeed be done, make linux great again!
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Odilia Version 0.1.0 Released | Odilia Screen Reader

After many months, in fact, just over a year of hard work, we are proud to announce the initial, beta release of Odilia: a new, fast, lightweight screenreader for Linux, written in rust for maximum speed and efficiency.
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Billy
Billy
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I installed from the AUR and got this, when I tried to launch it:

thread ‘main’ panicked at ‘Unable to copy default config file.: Os { code: 2, kind: NotFound, message: No such file or directory” }’, , odilia/src/state.rs:62:18
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Billy
Billy
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Lol... That moment when you think in markdown but type in bb code. Please ignore the code and /code bits.
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bgt lover
bgt lover
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run install_configs.sh script which comes with odilia, as root. If that script isn't there, well, open an issue, something must have been lost in transit, as they say.
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Billy
Billy
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It looks like the packager for Arch did not include install_configs.sh. I wonder if it should be ran during the install process, or maybe placed in /usr/share/odilia for the user to run after installation. I'm guessing that since it needs to be ran as root, it could be ran during the installatioin process, but I'm not sure how fakeroot would handle it, because it needs to create in pkgdir/wherever.
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bgt lover
bgt lover
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can you open an issue for that? I'll write on the matrix as well, but it's better to have bugs, especially UX ones, documented in issues where we can see them. I'm thinking of a system where odilia doesn't need any config file to be present when it starts, since if it's not, it'll just create one in $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/odilia/config, with default values and all that. However, I'm not sure if we need that, because you get this stuff once. Till the issue is fixed, clone the repo and run script
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Billy
Billy
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I sure can, but since this is an Arch specific packaging bug, should I comment on the package, or do you want me to comment on Odilia itself. If on Odilia, should I ask for config to be generated if it doesn't exist with default values?
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bgt lover
bgt lover
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you can comment on the package what pertains to the package if you want, since the maintainer of the AUR package, tate, is a member of the odilia org as well, so it's maintained by us as well. About automatic generating of config files, sure, that goes on the odilia issue tracker. Or, if you feel like doing that, you can also put both in the same issue on the repo, it'll arrive to us anyhow.
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Billy
Billy
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Ok, I'm heading over to file a bug now. One of them is fixed, before I even go there lol. The AUR package now puts the config in /etc, so don't have to worry about that one.
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bgt lover
bgt lover
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that's probably because I wrote on matrix and the packager saw it. Also, the packager is a developer, so yeah, that fixed itself soon enough. In any case, we're already at 0.1.4, with stuff being fixed. Still, if you want more imediate answers than this thread, I recommend you join us, maybe your bug has already been reported, or you could tell us in more detail what happened and we could do a kind of live debugging session. But sure, open an issue first, at least we know where to start
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Billy
Billy
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The issue is open. Basically, it requires both the system wide and lofcal config file to launch. If I remove the local file, it fails to start.
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Nolan Darilek
Nolan Darilek
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Couldn't you just impl Default for your config struct and write that out to the config path if it isn't found?
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