Re: [orca-list] accessibility of snapt packages?



hi

I couldn't agree more re joanie. I ask her to do stuff when she has time, others ask her to do stuff when she has time, her company pays her to work on stuff, she's the only one making sure orca keeps getting better, with the exception of translators, she's the main coder, so she does a lot, and I do mean a lot, of work. I don't think I could do all the work she does without burning out several times over. In addition to that, she's very kind and diplomatic. My message sounded like a two year old who was frustrated someone took his ball, and she just shrugged and said send me a debug file, when she could've said ubuntu bug, bug them, or said nothing, and I'd have been screwed. As for snap packages, you can do snap install packagename, without sudo, it will open a gtk dialog for your password. You can also do snap search packagename, snap info packagename, snap remove packagename, and a bunch of stuff I don't mess with. Gnome software can also install packages from the "snap store", so that's an option. Looking at snapcraft, the main hq for snap, snapd and the associated packages that make it work run on ubuntu, mint, arch, debian, gentoo, and others. The one bad thing about snap is that a lot of the packages are proprietary, although that's not snap's fault. There are open source things too, like mumble, telegram, and firefox, but there are also closed source stuff, like skype, spotify and slack. I am glad that linux has an app store like thing, that works across linux distros. I wish more of it was open, but shrug. All of the underpinnings are open, and that's good enough for me. Gnome software, snap, snapd, and all of the things snap needs to run are all open, it's just some of the apps in the store that aren't.

Thanks

Kendell Clark



On 03/21/2018 05:57 AM, Alex ARNAUD wrote:
Le 20/03/2018 à 21:09, kendell clark a écrit :
hi

Hi Kendell,

which so far doesn't seem to be done. Snap packages get access to the resources they need except accessibility services, I think. I'm not absolutely positive about this, but I download a snap version of firefox,

How do you have install it? I'm not familiar with snap.

 and it was a blank window called "firefox", so orca doesn't
seem to be able to see it, and firefox is very much accessible. I wonder if the ubuntu guys would fix this,

It's indeed ubuntu-related issue.

 or if joanie could work on it when
she has time?

I don't want to talk for Joanie but it seems she has already enough work to do with Orca bugs and improvement.

Best regards,
Alex.

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