Chris
Currently, iTunes is the only app that can generate spoken menus for
the iPod. This is actually not an Orca issue, but needs to be
addressed by music player programs that support the iPod such as
Rhythmbox and gtkpod. They need to be able to generate these spoken
entries. I don't know if this is likely to happen, as I believe apple
tried to patent this and succeeded, so it would depend on whether the
developers are willing to risk Apple's lawyers coming after them.
Apple seem to be on a role with their legal department at the moment,
unfortunately.
Secondly, VMWare is accessible with Orca just fine. It's a GTK
application, at least it was when I used it last at version 6.5. Both
VMWare server and workstation worked fine with Orca. Version 5 was a
bit iffy, a good number of the buttons weren't labeled, but this was
fixed in version 6. VMware for Linux isn't exactly cheap though,
unless you use the free VMWare server which lacks some support for
certain peripherals and is optimized for headless server usage. It's
Virtualbox that isn't accessible with Orca, as it's a QT application,
but you can still access all its functions through the command-line if
you wish to use it.
On Feb 24, 2009, at 16:59, Chris Gilland wrote:
Not sure if I should a marked this as OT or not. In my opinion, it's
totally Orca related, but some may totally disagree. Basically, the
only true reason I'm not switching to Ubuntu at this point is mainly
for two reasons. One being that I'm really unaware of a lot of good
software for Linux aside what comes with the distro. Yeah, I know a
few things, but not many. The other huger underlying issue however
is: I have an IPod Nano 4th Gen, with the self voicing menus and the
whole shebang. I love it! In any rate, being my Mac currently is not
connected to the internet, I really don't use it very much. Though I
have googled and read a little bit that IPods are actually supported
in UBuntu, I'm still a little hesitant to do this, as I want to be
sure that using Orca it will be accessible enough for me to do what I
need to do to transfer things over to the IPod. I know rhythmbox is
supposed to do it, and a few other programs I here will too. Now the
other? possibility, even though it's kind of a poor man's aide, would
be for me to run Windows in a virtual machine under UBuntu, then
install ITunes as well as JAWS10 in that virtual machine. Corse I
hear that VMWare's really not Orca friendly. This is why I'm kind a
right now debating my options. I will say this though: in very many
ways: I'm getting sick of Windows. It would be a good OS if it didn't
crash on me so often, but what can I say: that's just the nature of
the beast.
Anyway, if any of yall have any ideas, let me know.
Chris.
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