RE: Navigating GAIM (was Re: tarting orca)

[Mike Pedersen <Michael Pedersen Sun COM>]

Hello Cody,
> I could probably give you a layout of good key functions that 
> will help a user feel more at home with orca. I some how feel 
> funny about doing so because of the fact that it resembles 
> jaws too much. 
When coming up with the keypad layout for orca I've really tried to come up
with a simple and intuitive layout that requires as few presses of key
combinations as possible.  If you have questions as to why things are a
certain way or suggestions on how to improve things please send them to the
list.  
I'm still digging to find another eloquence 
> speech driver. so far I have found nothing but payable sdk's 
> which isn't exactly what I want. i guess not everything is 
> free, right?
I'm afraid you'll probably end up wanting a commercial TTS engine such as
software dectalk.   
>   I also have another question about key assignments. I'm not 
> sure if it has anything to do with orca, but I have my gnome 
> desktop setup where I only have one task bar, and one main 
> menu. I want to be able to press the windows logo key, and 
> just as it does in windows, bring up the gnome main menu. is 
> this possible. as of now that key is useless and has no purpose. 
I was sort of thinking of using the windows key as a second orca modifier
because I thought it might be an easier key for many laptops but I haven't
thought this through to much yet.  Any thoughts?  
Thanks for all the positive feedback.  
Mike