Getting Involved

[Rob Whyte [Fudge]]

You could get someone to build a package that depends on all you 
separate packages and also makes system changes using gsettings.

You can use packages to update configuration files also.

Would this be a possible solution?


Speak to someone on the KDE core team about packaging your changes.


cheers


On 11/06/2025 8:09 am, Bridger Reed-Lewis wrote:
> Because right now, it requires someone with the knowledge of the 
> terminal, along with access to chatgpt to troubleshoot. If not they 
> either have to know what they’re doing or rely on the community to 
> help them.
>
> What I’m envisioning is something that built into the settings very 
> similar to what Apple has, so I think in about 2 months I should have 
> a decent presentation and summary of what they can do.
>
> On Tue, Jun 10, 2025 at 13:59 Shervin Emami <shervin.emami at gmail.com> 
> wrote:
>
>     That sounds like a great idea.
>
>     Cheers,
>     Shervin.
>
>     On Wed, 11 June 2025, 5:35 am Bridger Reed-Lewis,
>     <bridgerreedlewis at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>         I think my goal is to test these out, and meet with the board
>         along with the accessibility person they hired to recommend
>         some changes for the OS so that these things are more
>         integrated into the system so that those with disabilities can
>         just easily use these out of the box
>
>         On Tue, Jun 10, 2025 at 03:46 Shervin Emami
>         <shervin.emami at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>             Oh ok, so Bridger was thinking that the functionality is
>             already integrated into the dedktop environment, whereas I
>             was thinking that Bridger is willing to implement the
>             integration into KDE.
>
>             The speech recognition engines convert speech files to
>             text, they don't have any OS integration. But it's not
>             that hard to implement basic OS integration by getting
>             speech recognition to emulate pressing keys on a keyboard.
>             I hacked together my own basic scripts for doing that. You
>             could turn my script into something more convenient to use:
>
>             https://github.com/shervinemami/push-to-whisper
>
>
>             Cheers,
>             Shervin.
>
>             On Mon, 9 June 2025, 8:37 pm Bridger Reed-Lewis,
>             <bridgerreedlewis at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>                 It’s installing right now, and no it’s not a feature
>                 yet from what I know. I’m going to see how accurate it
>                 is though once I get back from work. From what I
>                 understand though it runs this in a separate window
>                 not with the os, which is what I’m looking for similar
>                 to what Apple and windows does it.
>
>
>                 On Mon, Jun 9, 2025 at 02:06 Benson Muite
>                 <benson_muite at emailplus.org> wrote:
>
>
>
>                     On Mon, Jun 9, 2025, at 12:52 PM, Bridger
>                     Reed-Lewis wrote:
>                     > Hey so I set up what I could with a older laptop
>                     but I was looking through
>                     > our past conversations, and I wasn’t aware that
>                     faster-whisper didn’t work
>                     > within program, is there a effort to fix this?
>
>                     You would probably need to file a bug report, but
>                     without more details it is unclear
>                     where.  For example, which program does it not
>                     work with? Does it work with any
>                     programs? Is this on Arch with KDE on Wayland? Do
>                     other programs similar to
>                     fast-whisper work?
>
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