Re: [orca-list] What the actual status with GNOME Shell 3.2 accessibility support?

[Thomas Ward <thomasward1978 gmail com>]

Hi David,

I'm not too clear where XFCE is in terms of A11Y, but I've heard it is
coming along. I've finally got the necessary dependencies compiled and
installed for Qt 4.8 and KDE 4.8 and accessibility isn't too bad. I've
been looking at Kate, the KDE text editor, and KCalculator and its not
too bad either. I think by next spring or so once some of the Qt 4.8
and KDE packages begin shipping with distributions like Kubuntu etc we
will have one more alternative to Gnome 3.x. Its just a matter of a
few months for some of this stuff to be released into the mainstream
distributions.


Cheers!



On 10/13/11, David Csercsics <aarg shaw ca> wrote:
> On 10/13/2011 1:47 PM, Janina Sajka wrote:
> > Steve, I agree with you, as I just said in a response to Attila. If
> > there's any comfort in this situation, I take comfort from the fact that
> > it's not just persons with disabilities they've been willing to offend.
> > Among others, Linus Torvalds has called Gnome 3 unusable and has
> > switched to XFCE:
>
>
> So on that note what's the status of XFCE and QT support. I would like
> to switch to those as needed on my netbook and my desktop as well. Gnome
> 3 just looked like a big bloated multidrirectional mess as you say and
> it's bigger than I want for a simple customizable minimal GUI. Also when
> you only have a gig of RAM a big bloated desktop isn't helping. I
> ditched Windows 7 from the netbook for that reason and I would hate to
> just bloat back up again with gnome 3 if there's a better alternative. I
> expect with everything being forcefully shoved off into data centers
> we're going to have to get a11y stuff on smaller devices like tablets
> and such or netbooks. Most people now only have bigger boxes for server
> stuff.
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