Re: [orca-list] Only reason I won't fully switch

[Jacob Schmude <j schmude gmail com>]

Chris
Currently, iTunes is the only app that can generate spoken menus for  
the iPod. This is actually not an Orca issue, but needs to be  
addressed by music player programs that support the iPod such as  
Rhythmbox and gtkpod. They need to be able to generate these spoken  
entries. I don't know if this is likely to happen, as I believe apple  
tried to patent this and succeeded, so it would depend on whether the  
developers are willing to risk Apple's lawyers coming after them.  
Apple seem to be on a role with their legal department at the moment,  
unfortunately.
Secondly, VMWare is accessible with Orca just fine. It's a GTK  
application, at least it was when I used it last at version 6.5. Both  
VMWare server and workstation worked fine with Orca. Version 5 was a  
bit iffy, a good number of the buttons weren't labeled, but this was  
fixed in version 6. VMware for Linux isn't exactly cheap though,  
unless you use the free VMWare server which lacks some support for  
certain peripherals and is optimized for headless server usage. It's  
Virtualbox that isn't accessible with Orca, as it's a QT application,  
but you can still access all its functions through the command-line if  
you wish to use it.




On Feb 24, 2009, at 16:59, Chris Gilland wrote:

> Not sure if I should a marked this as OT or not.  In my opinion,  
> it's totally Orca related, but some may totally disagree.   
> Basically, the only true reason I'm not switching to Ubuntu at this  
> point is mainly for two reasons.  One being that I'm really unaware  
> of a lot of good software for Linux aside what comes with the  
> distro.  Yeah, I know a few things, but not many.  The other huger  
> underlying issue however is:  I have an IPod Nano 4th Gen, with the  
> self voicing menus and the whole shebang.  I love it!  In any rate,  
> being my Mac currently is not connected to the internet, I really  
> don't use it very much.  Though I have googled and read a little bit  
> that IPods are actually supported in UBuntu, I'm still a little  
> hesitant to do this, as I want to be sure that using Orca it will be  
> accessible enough for me to do what I need to do to transfer things  
> over to the IPod.  I know rhythmbox is supposed to do it, and a few  
> other programs I here will too. Now the other? possibility, even  
> though it's kind of a poor man's aide, would be for me to run  
> Windows in a virtual machine under UBuntu, then install ITunes as  
> well as JAWS10 in that virtual machine.  Corse I hear that VMWare's  
> really not Orca friendly.  This is why I'm kind a right now debating  
> my options.  I will say this though:  in very many ways:  I'm  
> getting sick of Windows.  It would be a good OS if it didn't crash  
> on me so often, but what can I say:  that's just the nature of the  
> beast.
>
> Anyway, if any of yall have any ideas, let me know.
>
> Chris.
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