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

[Guy Schlosser <guyster bex net>]

Doesn't rockbox support ipod nano? If it does (I know it supports nano, 
we wouldn't have to worry about itunes, and we could use orca the way 
we're used to. I have a sansa e260 that Rockbox runs on, and I love it. 
A little ot, but just a thought.

Later,


Guybut not sure about 4th gen)

Jacob Schmude wrote:
> 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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