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Re: [orca-list] Orca on Ubuntu eeeP

Just to clarify, I think Erik and David are discussion related, but
separate things:

1) Erik is saying that even if you cannot see something on the screen
because a dialog is too large, you can still tab to the object and Orca
will still present it in speech and braille.

2) David is saying that the Orca preferences dialog is too large for the
small screen.  So, a sighted user needs to be able to move the window
around (e.g., Alt+F7 and then the arrow keys) to see the areas of the
window off the screen.

Will

On Thu, 2008-10-16 at 21:44 +0100, David Banes wrote:

And that all makes perfect sense to me - except in this case that isn't
what happens - its as if the orca GUI is a fixed size rather than
relative to the screen - slightly bizarre and Im sure someone techie can
explain it - but that is what happens ! 

David Banes
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-----Original Message-----
From: Erik Heil [mailto:eheil sdf lonestar org] 
Sent: 16 October 2008 16:12
To: Krishnakant Mane
Cc: Willie Walker; David Banes; Orca-list gnome org
Subject: Re: [orca-list] Orca on Ubuntu eeeP


Hi,
OK, something here doesn't make any sense to me.  But maybe its just me.
Normally, a screen's physical size has nothing to do with what
information
the video card outputs.  I have run headless machines for years--in
fact,
my Sun Ultra 2 is such a device.  I do not have any problems with
terminal sessions, though they are remote since the machine in question
does not have any local keyboard or display.  So kindly, perhaps one of
you here could explain what's going on?

--Erik


On Thu, 16 Oct 2008, Krishnakant Mane wrote:


Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 07:08:18 +0530
From: Krishnakant Mane <hackingkk gmail com>
To: Erik Heil <eheil sdf lonestar org>
Cc: Willie Walker <William Walker sun com>,
    David Banes <david banes abilitynet org uk>, Orca-list gnome org
Subject: Re: [orca-list] Orca on Ubuntu eeePC

Might be some what off topic, But try out acer aspire 1 series.
It comes with 1 gb ram and 120 gb hdd.
it is an atom processor based laptop and i have tryed orca with ubuntu
netbook remix.
By the way I think the asus eeepc has a keyboard too small for

working.

I too had the preferences dialog issue some time back.  But the acer
aspire1 is slightly bigger than the netbook eeepc of asus so may be
the preferences not appearing on the screen might be sorted out.
happy hacking.
Krishnakant.

On 15/10/2008, Erik Heil <eheil sdf lonestar org> wrote:

Hi their.
As you probably know, I'm considering purchasing an EEE PC for use

with

Linux--doesn't have to be Ubuntu though.  Since I obviously can't

see the

screen, will that be a issue for me?  I was under the impression

that the

original poster was trying to manipulate the Orca GUI with the touch

pad or

whatever pointing device the EEE PC comes wth.
--Erik

On Wed, 15 Oct 2008, Willie Walker wrote:


Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2008 09:03:40 -0400
From: Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>
To: David Banes <david banes abilitynet org uk>
Cc: Orca-list gnome org
Subject: Re: [orca-list] Orca on Ubuntu eeePC

Hi David:

Yech.  Unfortunately, Orca's preferences GUI is just too big.  You

should

be
able to move it around, however, by pressing Alt+F7 and then using

the

arrow
keys.

Will

On Oct 15, 2008, at 8:06 AM, David Banes wrote:


We've successfully installed Orca onto a Ubuntu based eeePC and
certainly on
mains power it runs extremely well with some hesitancy on battery

power.

But
one problem appears to be that the Orca preferences screen

doesn't

resize
when the machine starts up, which means that in order to set

preferences

and
select options one needs to plug the umpc into a full monitor to

view

all
the tabs and buttons

Any ideas ?

David Banes
 Director of Development

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