Re: [orca-list] Strange orca behavior.

[Michael Whapples <mwhapples aim com>]

Hello,
I don't know what is wrong in your case, but orca shouldn't need that 
much restarting. Have you read the information on getting a debug log 
from orca (information on the orca wiki somewhere)? Possibly if you 
could get a debug log file and posted it here may be someone will be 
able to find a reason for the problem.

As far as your questions about distros, I have to say that ubuntu seems 
to get alot of messages posted about people having trouble with it. I 
don't know whether this is a reflection on it or if it is simply that 
ubuntu pushes itself towards newcomers and so having so many newcomers 
there are more people to find problems they can't find the answer 
themselves. Anyway as I don't use ubuntu I will keep my own oppinion to 
myself and leave others to make up their own minds on ubuntu.

As for question of most stable distro, the decission is possibly more 
complicated than that. Debian stable goes through alot of checks before 
its released, and so is very stable, but as a consequence software in 
debian stable tends to be quite old (eg. debian stable is on gnome 
2.22). However if you are prepared to put up with some potential bugs 
and such like then debian unstable has gnome 2.26. If you know how to 
manage a debian unstable system it can be very useable and you shouldn't 
have too many problems (eg. I can have my computer on all day and never 
need to restart gnome or even orca).

The other consideration you should make when choosing a distribution is 
how its designed to be used. This can be for what use its designed for 
(eg. desktop system, web server, etc) but also the type of user (eg. 
debian tends to be a lot more orientated to command line configuration 
and configuration files, where as systems like ubuntu tend to expect the 
user to be more of a GUI user and so provides configuration applications).

As I mentioned I am using debian unstable (if I am precise it is GRML, 
but it is very close to debian and so for these purposes can be treated 
as debian, particularly as GRML uses debian's packages for gnome). I 
would consider myself a confident user who is prepared to use the 
command line and edit configuration files, so I tend towards 
distributions like debian and slackware.

As another note, I believe some of the orca team use opensolaris, and 
this is the distribution they do work to ensure gnome accessibility is 
configured correctly. Please be aware opensolaris while similar to 
linux, is not actually a linux distribution, its another flavour of unix 
called solaris. I have to say that when I had a look at opensolaris I 
did like what I saw, but I don't use it for a few reasons (it doesn't 
support my better quality sound card, java access bridge at the time 
seemed unreliable on opensolaris, and no way to switch to a full text 
console and use something like speakup).

Michael Whapples
On -10/01/37 20:59, balaram wrote:
> Dear list,
> I am experiencing the worst performance of orca ever since I have
> started using Ubuntu.
> I am having to activate orca at least two to three times every 30
> minutes regardless of the applications i use with it.
> This I am experiencing since I have switched to Ubuntu 9.04.
> Why is this so?
> I am using a lenovo laptop with orca 2.26 and Ubuntu 9.04.
> Any solutions?
> Why is this that, instead of getting improved with each new version,
> Orca is performing in a strange way?
> My problem is that, I feel it too technical to produce and report bugs.
> Anyways, I shall come to terms with these processes.
> Then again, how is orca's performance with other distros of Linux other
> than Ubuntu?
> I would like to know which is the most stable distro of Linux with which
> orca can be used.
> How is the latest version of orca performing?
> curious to have answers on these from you experts. RGDS,
> P. Balaraman.
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