Re: [orca-list] Orca and the desktop

[Piñeiro <apinheiro igalia com>]

Well, as I said things improved a lot lately, but AFAIK mostly on the
framework/base support. For what I know their next step is working on
the details of reviewing the KDE apps.

Anyway, as I said, kde-accessibility ml folks could know it better.

BR

On 11/18/2011 03:41 PM, Alex Midence wrote:
> What a coincidence.  I tried KDE last night.  More precisely, I tried
> to try it.  I installed it on my Ubuntu vm from a gnome terminal
> within unity 2d:
>
> sudo apt-get install kubuntu-desktop
>
> A lot of stuff didn't work for me.  Amarok was sort of accessible with
> flat review (kind of cool, actually) but the menus were not.  The
> other stuff like Kate and Kopete korganizer crashed immediately upon
> launch.  I'm not sure why.
>
> I wonder if launching this stuff from KDE itself might be beneficial
> but switching from Unity to KDE is proving a challenge.  Lightdm does
> not talk and GDM doesn't either in 11.10.  Gdmsetup seems to have
> fallen by the wayside somehow too so, I can't enter that into a
> terminal to change the desktop that is brought up at launch even once
> I'm logged in.  Now, I probably have to track down some arcane string
> to punch into the command line itself which will undoubtedly consist
> of some cryptic command and a few switches whose abbreviated format
> makes sense only to the person who wrote the code.  I am quite certain
> it won't be something so simple as:
>
> sudo desktopswitch --kde
>
> Go ahead.  Try it.  Misery and frustration love company.  =)
>
> Alex M
>
> On 11/18/11, Piñeiro <apinheiro igalia com> wrote:
> > During the last months qt folks improved a lot qt-at-spi, and it started
> > to being functional tested with Orca. So in theory KDE can be an option
> > now. But not sure about how much functional is.
> >
> > You could try to ask to kde-accessibility list:
> > kde-accessibility kde org
> >
> > On 11/18/2011 01:58 AM, Angelo Sonnesso wrote:
> > > Does Orca work with desktops other than Gnome?
> > >
> > > Angelo Sonnesso M.A M.S.
> > > Social Worker III
> > >
> > >
> > > _______________________________________________
> > > orca-list mailing list
> > > orca-list gnome org
> > > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/orca-list
> > > 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
> > > Log bugs and feature requests at http://bugzilla.gnome.org
> > > Find out how to help at http://live.gnome.org/Orca/HowCanIHelp
> >
> > --
> > Alejandro Piñeiro Iglesias


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