Re: [orca-list] miscellaneous Orca comments

[Jason White <jason jasonjgw net>]

On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 10:48:40AM -0400, Janina Sajka wrote:
> Jason White writes:
> > ... All that is
> > necessary is to make access to gnome-terminal work reliably and efficiently,
> > which is exactly the same problem as making any other application accessible.
>
> Until such time would you agree users should be directed to use the
> things that work today?

Yes, unless they're actively working on the bugs.

Just to clarify an additional point, I am not personally planning to run
terminal applications extensively from Gnome-terminal; my only point is that I
think the use cases for it are legitimate, and it shouldn't be difficult to
make this work reliably. If I found myself working in X applications most of
the time, then this assessment might change for reasons of integration.

Another example would involve running Vi or Emacs under X during a Gnome
session, for example as an external editor invoked by e-mail software. I know
that Claws-mail can spawn your preferred editor, and that it is regarded by
experienced users as competitive with Mutt, Alpine and other console-level
tools, so if access to it becomes important then it will be desirable for
users to be able to run their favourite editors seamlessly within Gnome,
including console-based Vi and Emacs sessions.

Integration with emacspeak is a separate issue that I have discussed in an
earlier contribution to this thread.