[Kde-accessibility] FYI: KTTS Enhancements

[Gary Cramblitt]

There have been some recent enhancements to KTTS.

1.  When kttsd is started, if no Talkers have yet been configured, kttsd 
attempts to automatically configure one.  First it tries to configure a 
Talker using the desktop language.  If that fails, it attempts to configure 
an English Talker.

2.  In KTTSMgr, if you change any settings and click the "Jobs" tab, a warning 
message appears suggesting that you click Apply to save your changes before 
manipulating the jobs.

3.  If any application (including Konqueror and embedded Kate) start a text 
job of at least 5 sentences, and KTTSMgr is not running, kttsd automatically 
starts KTTSMgr with command line options "--systray --autoexit".  The 
"--systray" option causes KTTSMgr to run minimized in the system tray.  The 
"--autoexit" option causes KTTSMgr to automatically exit when the last text 
job finishes.  The intention of this change is to make it similar to Print 
Manager, which automatically starts whenever you initiate a print job, and 
exits when all printing has finished.  This gives users who initiate text 
speech jobs from Konqi or Kate a way to stop speech (or otherwise control the 
output).  Options have been added to the KTTSMgr "General" tab to turn this 
behavior off, but I'm not entirely happy with the wording.  Suggestions 
welcome.


-- 
Gary Cramblitt (aka PhantomsDad)
KDE Text-to-Speech Maintainer
http://accessibility.kde.org/developer/kttsd/index.php