Re: [orca-list] How you can help

[Storm Dragon <stormdragon2976 gmail com>]

Hi,
You could try this one:
http://www.sthurlow.com/python/
HTH
Storm

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On Wed, 2010-03-03 at 11:09 -0500, Alex H. wrote:
> I'm really excited to get involved in the Orca project and
> accessibility in general, I think once I mess with a steady Linux
> environment long enough I'll start getting the hang of Orca scripting
> and all that good stuff.
>
> As a sidenote, is there anybody who knows a decent Python tutorial,
> one that really explains what's actually going on? I've looked at
> plenty and most just explain in the first two paragraphs, then jump in
> to tuples and advanced stuff that has no meaning to a noob like me :).
> Any suggestions?
>
> On 3/3/10, trev saunders gmail com <trev saunders gmail com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > One question would be how to go about creating such an environment?
> > OpenSolaris has that nice feature of boot environments which I imagine
> > really fit well. However as I mentioned in the past I have a problem
> > with the hardware support in the latest builds (on the laptop X refuses
> > to start, on my desktop my better soundcard isn't supported (that's a
> > must) although I believe some extrra drivers may come but they are still
> > limited compared to options for Linux). Hardware support is possibly one
> > of the biggest barriers for opensolaris, compared to Linux opensolaris
> > has a long way to go for supporting most computers.
> >
> > You might be able to make freeBSD and xfs work the same you would for
> > solarus.
> >
> > An alternative may
> > be virtual machines, but I have to say I never got them working well,
> > they seem to run so slow on my systems I can't see them being practical.
> > Has anyone tips for using VMs?
> >
> > I've found kvm using hardware virtualization to be usably fast for this sort
> > of work.  one thing you might want to fiddle with is allowing the vm more
> > than kvm's default of 128M of ram which is probably to little for gnome.
> >
> > Any other suggestions I have missed?
> >
> > It might be possible to run gnome and orca in a chroot that has a different
> > version from the default, but I've never tried.
> >
> > HTH
> > Trev
> > _______________________________________________
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> > Visit http://live.gnome.org/Orca for more information on Orca.
> > The manual is at
> > http://library.gnome.org/users/gnome-access-guide/nightly/ats-2.html
> > The FAQ is at http://live.gnome.org/Orca/FrequentlyAskedQuestions
> > Netiquette Guidelines are at
> > http://live.gnome.org/Orca/FrequentlyAskedQuestions/NetiquetteGuidelines
> > Log bugs and feature requests at http://bugzilla.gnome.org
> >
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