Re: Having a d-i boot timeout for enabling speech?

[john doe <johndoe65534@mail.com>]

On 2/28/2022 12:17 AM, Holger Wansing wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Samuel Thibault <sthibault@debian.org> wrote (Sun, 13 Feb 2022 02:28:48 +0100):
> > Users on the debian-accessibility mailing list reported that they found
> > it very useful that the MacOS X installation image automatically starts
> > a speech-enabled installer when the boot menu is left untouched for
> > 10 seconds, so that blind people have really nothing more to do than
> > plugging the installation USB key and turning the computer on to get a
> > speaking installer (and notably in the case when the computer does not
> > have a hardware speaker for beeping at the boot menu).
> >
> > It happens that syslinux supports this, the attached patch implements
> > it. What do debian-boot people think about the idea?
>
> This seems to be only in interest for a limited group of people, however
> from my point of view the pro's beat the con's, so my vote would be
> "why not".

Increasing the wait time to something like 60sec might not be a bad idea
to avoid this being a distraction to the vast majority of users.

Even better would be to aline with what other OSes are doing (docs welcome).

For what it is worth, I could not find documentation backing up a wait
time in other OSes.

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John Doe