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

[Mallory van Achterberg <stommepoes stommepoes nl>]

Hm, I recently bought a new notebook (which now is missing some
hardware features since Sony software apparently controlled them)
where I've installed Linux Mint Debian Edition with Xfce.

So far I've been too pussy to download Orca but that has been the
plan all along... see how far it goes. Xfce seems to have a Gnome
base? or something; lots of Gnome applications run on it, and on
startup I see gdm3 starting and Gnome libs. Still, much smaller than
the Gnome on my Ubuntu box, which was also the point: wanted to avoid
this bloaty new Gnome stuff that'll be thrust upon Ubuntu users once
we leave Karmic.

Mint so far has been nice since it's Debian but with the tasty non-free
stuff added to it <grin>, though it is Debian testing, wheezy, not 
stable squeeze. Which shouldn't affect Orca I don't think.

-Mallory

On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 07:57:57PM -0400, Thomas Ward wrote:
> 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.