Re: Getting Involved

"Rob Whyte [Fudge]" <[email protected]> Sun, 15 Jun 2025 18:24:06 +1000
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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 <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
>
>     That sounds like a great idea.
>
>     Cheers,
>     Shervin.
>
>     On Wed, 11 June 2025, 5:35 am Bridger Reed-Lewis,
>     <[email protected]> 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
>         <[email protected]> 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,
>             <[email protected]> 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
>                 <[email protected]> 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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    <p>You could get someone to build a package that depends on all you
      separate packages and also makes system changes using gsettings.</p>
    <p>You can use packages to update configuration files also.</p>
    <p>Would this be a possible solution?</p>
    <p><br>
    </p>
    <p>Speak to someone on the KDE core team about packaging your
      changes.</p>
    <p><br>
    </p>
    <p>cheers</p>
    <p><br>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 11/06/2025 8:09 am, Bridger
      Reed-Lewis wrote:<br>
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      <div dir="auto">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. </div>
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      <div dir="auto">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. </div>
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          <div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Jun 10, 2025 at
            13:59 Shervin Emami &lt;<a
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              <div>That sounds like a great idea. </div>
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              <div data-smartmail="gmail_signature">Cheers,<br>
                Shervin.<br>
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              <div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, 11 June 2025,
                5:35 am Bridger Reed-Lewis, &lt;<a
                  href="mailto:[email protected]"
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                wrote:<br>
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                <div dir="auto">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 </div>
                <div><br>
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                    <div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Jun 10,
                      2025 at 03:46 Shervin Emami &lt;<a
                        href="mailto:[email protected]"
                        rel="noreferrer" target="_blank"
                        moz-do-not-send="true"
                        class="moz-txt-link-freetext">[email protected]</a>&gt;
                      wrote:<br>
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                        <div>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.</div>
                        <div dir="auto"><br>
                        </div>
                        <div dir="auto">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:</div>
                        <div dir="auto"><br>
                        </div>
                        <div dir="auto"><a
href="https://github.com/shervinemami/push-to-whisper" rel="noreferrer"
                            target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true"
                            class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://github.com/shervinemami/push-to-whisper</a></div>
                        <div dir="auto"><br>
                        </div>
                        <div><br>
                        </div>
                        <div data-smartmail="gmail_signature">Cheers,</div>
                        <div data-smartmail="gmail_signature" dir="auto">Shervin. <br>
                              </div>
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                        <div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, 9 June
                          2025, 8:37 pm Bridger Reed-Lewis, &lt;<a
                            href="mailto:[email protected]"
                            rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank"
                            moz-do-not-send="true"
                            class="moz-txt-link-freetext">[email protected]</a>&gt;
                          wrote:<br>
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                          <div dir="auto">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. </div>
                          <div dir="auto"><br>
                          </div>
                          <div dir="auto"><br>
                            <div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto">
                              <div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon,
                                Jun 9, 2025 at 02:06 Benson Muite &lt;<a
href="mailto:[email protected]"
                                  rel="noreferrer noreferrer noreferrer"
                                  target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true"
                                  class="moz-txt-link-freetext">[email protected]</a>&gt;
                                wrote:<br>
                              </div>
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                                <br>
                                On Mon, Jun 9, 2025, at 12:52 PM,
                                Bridger Reed-Lewis wrote:<br>
                                &gt; Hey so I set up what I could with a
                                older laptop but I was looking through<br>
                                &gt; our past conversations, and I
                                wasn’t aware that faster-whisper didn’t
                                work<br>
                                &gt; within program, is there a effort
                                to fix this?<br>
                                <br>
                                You would probably need to file a bug
                                report, but without more details it is
                                unclear<br>
                                where.  For example, which program does
                                it not work with? Does it work with any<br>
                                programs? Is this on Arch with KDE on
                                Wayland? Do other programs similar to<br>
                                fast-whisper work?<br>
                                <br>
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