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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