Re: [orca-list] Self Introduction

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

Hi Michael:

Editing a WIKI can be a little strange, but it can be very quick.  I 
prefer WIKI syntax to HTML mostly because of the speed in which I can 
create things.  It's not that bad once you get used to it.  What I tend 
to do when I forget how to do something is just go to a page that has 
something similar to what I want and then choose the 'edit' option of 
the WIKI to see what the syntax is.

With wonderful contributors adding details to the WIKI and helping keep 
it up to date, we can continue to grow the documentation and help lots 
of users.  This is all cool stuff.  :-)

Will

Michael Whapples wrote:
> Hello,
> I suppose its that I need to learn about writing stuff using a wiki,
> probably once I have done that it might be a lot quicker for me to add
> this information. Annoyingly for me I do know some basic html, and I
> thought wikis were meant to make it easier to write stuff online, but
> the initial looks at the documentation for writing a wiki page looks
> more complicated, but may be that's my structured mind liking the
> structure and order of things like html.
>
> From
> Michael Whapples
> On Thu, 2008-01-03 at 11:29 -0500, Willie Walker wrote:
> > Thanks Michael!  If you find time to write it up, it would be great. 
> > The work you've been doing with the performance enhancement testing for 
> > Firefox (including uncommitted patches, providing debug.outs, and 
> > creating HTML documents for bug reproduction) has been way awesome and 
> > the team greatly appreciates it.
> >
> > Will
> >
> > Michael Whapples wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > > I found no difficulty with setting up gnome on slackware 12.0 with
> > > gnome-slacky (www.slacky.eu). I can't comment on droplinegnome as slacky
> > > was more recent (although I think from another message someone sent
> > > dropline has now made a 2.20.2 release, but slacky had a 2.20.1 and a
> > > 2.20.2 release).
> > >
> > > Gnome slacky was simple to install, I don't know how this compares to
> > > dropline, but for slacky you download the CD image from:
> > > http://slacky.uglyplace.org/repository/gnomeslk/
> > > Burn the CD image to disc and then run the install.sh script in the base
> > > directory.
> > >
> > > There are other packages available in the slacky repository,
> > > sub-directories of http://slacky.uglyplace.org/repository/.
> > >
> > > Will, may be I should document this in the orca wiki, its just finding
> > > the time to do so.
> > >
> > > From
> > > Michael Whapples
> > > On Wed, 2008-01-02 at 15:21 -0500, Willie Walker wrote:
> > > > Hi Steve:
> > > >
> > > > Welcome!  The list has been quiet since many of us were recharging our 
> > > > batteries over the winter break.  I came back to over 1000 e-mail 
> > > > messages and I'm working my way through them.
> > > >
> > > > For how you can help?  Well...if you want to work on ways to 
> > > > troubleshoot and set up accessibility (and Orca) on Slackware, that 
> > > > would be awesome.  You will have a home at 
> > > > http://live.gnome.org/Orca/DownloadInstall.  :-)
> > > >
> > > > In any case, welcome again and hope to see you around,
> > > >
> > > > Will
> > > >
> > > > Steve Holmes wrote:
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> > > > > Hi, I thought I would introduce myself and let this message double as
> > > > > a quick test to see if I got subscribed all right; It's been silent
> > > > > since I joined earlier today.
> > > > >
> > > > > I'm brand new to Orca and am so far, just trying the Ubuntu Live 7.10
> > > > > CD to kick the tires so to speak.  I then need to make some room on my
> > > > > hard drive for the extra software to install and decide whether to
> > > > > stick with my current Slackware 12 distro or take a plunge and go with
> > > > > Debian and get gnome packaged in along witheverything else.  I
> > > > > understand DropLine is a good way to go to get gnome for Slackware and
> > > > > I think there was another option as well.  I've always liked Slackware
> > > > > for it's ease of finding and manipulating of config files under the
> > > > > BSD style of configs so I hope installing gnome from packages wouldn't
> > > > > be too hard for that.  If it tends to be problematic for some, then
> > > > > maybe I'd be better off going with something like Debian or Ubuntu.
> > > > > At least those two have identical package management and dependancy
> > > > > tracking; that's one thing Slackware isn't so good at.
> > > > >
> > > > > Anyway, I'm interested in whatever ideas some folks might express here
> > > > > to kind of nudge me in a good way to go.  I realize the ultimate
> > > > > decision is up to me but I wouldn't mind some input before taking the
> > > > > final jump.
> > > > >
> > > > > Happy New year.
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