[Kde-accessibility] KTTSD testers needed

[Luke Yelavich]

On Sat, Nov 12, 2005 at 12:26:41AM EST, Gary Cramblitt wrote:
> To my horror, I discovered a rather embarrassing bug in kttsd.  The effect of 
> the bug is that appendText calls are completely ignored.  appendText is used 
> to add another part to an existing text job created with setText.  
> Apparently, no apps are currently using this function, but since we won't 
> have another KDE release before KDE4 for quite some time, I'd like to see 
> this fixed for the KDE 3.5 release.
> 
> I've made a fix, but unfortunately, it isn't trivial.  The timing of this is 
> really bad because KDE 3.5rc1 is just going out and KDE 3.5final is probably 
> just a week or two away.  I'm reluctant to commit the fix and risk breaking 
> kttsd in some other, unintended way just before release.
> 
> So I'm looking for testers who can give me some confidence the fix is OK 
> before I commit it.
> 
> If you can help, go to http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=116031, download 
> the patch and follow the instructions.

Do we need to be running a development version of KDE to test this? If 
so, is there somewhere I can find out info on how to build it all from 
source or a distro that is going through a dev cycle with this version 
of KDE included?

Thanks.

Luke