Re: [orca-list] system menu in default accessible desktop (ubuntu 11.04)

[Thomas Ward <thomasward1978 gmail com>]

Hi Andy,

As for question one, Ubuntu 11 comes with Gnome 3. As you probably are
aware I think we are all in the same boat with Gnome 3. They've broken
some things, accessibility wise, that use to work in Gnome 2.32 and
earlier.

As for question two, where is the system menu, I haven't figured that
one out yet myself. I have however come up with a quick and dirty work
around and if you know the name of the system application to simply
open run and enter the name into the run dialog. That's the only way I
know to change your screensaver, keyboard settings, gdm settings, etc
without getting to the system menu itself. Personally, I'm inclined to
go back to Ubuntu 10.04 LTS until all this stuff is resolved with
Gnome 3 as it seems less accessible than previous versions.

HTH
On 5/5/11, Andy B. <sonfire11 gmail com> wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I finally got Ubuntu 11.04 installed as a wubi image. Got a chance to play
> around with it and it looks pretty cool. I can't quite tell what desktop I'm
> using, but it looks possibly like gnome to me. There is a launcher bar on
> the top of the screen with things like home, applications, ubuntu1, Ubuntu
> software center, firefox, the office apps, workspace switcher and trash.
> Below the launcher bar is a menu bar that has things like file, edit, view,
> messages, calendar/clock, network and quite a few more. Below this menu bar
> is an empty space (assuming it is the desktop icon area). My questions, what
> happened to places and system? And once I find them, how do you open the
> menu itself? Pressing enter on applications just brings up some places
> window where you can type/search for something.