Re: [orca-list] Orca with Yast?

[Janina Sajka <janina rednote net>]

I believe yast is only used by Suse/Novell. It is definitely not used by
Fedora or RHEL.

Janina

Peter Korn writes:
> Hi Darragh,
>
> Yast is still based on the KDE/Qt widget set, which does not yet give 
> Orca what it needs.  Yast is not used in all Linux distributions.  
> Notably, it is not part of Ubuntu.  Are you required to use RedHat or 
> SuSE as your Linux?
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Peter Korn
> Accessibility Architect,
> Sun Microsystems, Inc.
>
> > Hello all,
> >
> > The last I heard about two years ago, no Gnome A-T application would
> > work with Yast because it wasn't using GTK or something like that.
> >
> > Is this still the case?  Will I have to use the text version?
> >
> > I am going to be working with Linux again full time from september!
> > You wouldn't believe how fantastic it will be to finally stop working
> > with databases.
> >
> > The last time I worked with Novell though, Yast was a reall pain.  I'm
> > hoping that some progress has been made.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> >
> > Darragh
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> >   
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