Re: [orca-list] Latest Version of Orca

[Janina Sajka <janina rednote net>]

It's hard to give good advice without a lot more data than you provide.
However, I'll take my best shot.

You say you paid for this system, but what you got is unusable. I
surmise from that that you probably have very little in the way of
personal data on that system that you would need to preserve. If that is
so, then the simplest solution is to reformat the hard drive and start
over, using a distribution that's far more likely to give you good
results.

My suggestion to you as a blind user who doesn't know his way around
Linux is to rely on the good expertise of other blind users who've paved
the road for you. Put Vinux on that machine. And, if you paid someone,
surely you didn't pay them to mindlessly give you anything. I presume
you paid them for a usable system. So, have them do it. They may groan
and complain, but the job isn't that big of a deal to someone who knows
what they're doing.

Find Vinux at:
http://vinuxproject.org/

hth

Janina

RiverWind writes:
> Hey There,
>
> So for the sake of experimentation, I would like to switch my gnome
> version back to "gnome.2.32" and my version of Orca to "xdesktop."
> Would I need to download specific disks, or will I be able to
> accomplish the switch online, via say, something like the "apt-
> get?" If I am not mistaken, I believe that some compilation and
> some rather radical house cleaning would be necessary. I am willing
> to do this, but there might be a bit of a learning curve, because
> I paid to have this system put together. Making the needed changes
> by my lonesome is going to be a bit of a challenge, but my current
> system is all but unusable.
>
> I sincerely appreciate your input here, and I am sorry to further
> presume upon your time and didactic energies.
>
> cheerio,
> Riv
>
> Feel free to visit my website and my blog and learn more about me
> and what I stand for.
> My Website @ http://riverwind.shellworld.net
> My Blog http://windraven13.livejournal.com/
>
> On Thu, 13 Oct 2011, Janina Sajka wrote:
>
> > OK, maybe it wasn't stated as clearly as it might have been.
> >
> > Stay away from gnome-shell 3 and everything that goes with it. It's not
> > the Linux distro that matters, it's the gnome-shell, and the new
> > environment we're still debugging. This will not change in days, and
> > probably not even in weeks. Expect this will be true for months and
> > months.
> >
> > So, stick with gnome-2.32. And, stick with the xdesktop versions of
> > Orca.
> >
> > Janina
> >
> > RiverWind writes:
> > > Hey There,
> > >
> > > Well, after having exhausted all of the corrective or at least
> > > ameliorative options known to myself, my problem with Orca's
> > > incessant crashing remains unabated. I therefore have arrived at
> > > the conclusion that a change is most highly warranted. Either I
> > > dispense with Orca as a screen reader, or I find a new distro of
> > > Linux to run on my system. However, rather than reinventing the
> > > wheel as it were, I believe that I would much rather try a
> > > different version of Orca before resorting to more drastic and
> > > perhaps unnecessary alternatives.
> > >
> > > So with this sentiment in mind, might I enquire as to what is the
> > > most recent and hopefully less bug-ridden version of Orca? To
> > > further elucidate the nature of my problem, and hopefully render a
> > > more efficacious response, I should point out that I am currently
> > > running the version of Squeeze Disk that came out of beta back in
> > > the first quarter of this year. Said version of course, came with
> > > its own requisite version of Orca. Now then, I am hoping most
> > > fervently that there exists a more recent version of this speech
> > > package. Such being the case, I can acquire it and hopefully solve
> > > this matter once and for all.
> > >
> > > As always, any and all input will be most sincerely appreciated,
> > > and so I thank you dear respondent in advance. Moreover, should
> > > your response turn out to be effectual, I will not only thank you,
> > > but bless you most ardently indeed.
> > >
> > > cheerio,
> > > Riv
> > >
> > > Feel free to visit my website and my blog and learn more about me
> > > and what I stand for.
> > > My Website @ http://riverwind.shellworld.net
> > > My Blog http://windraven13.livejournal.com/
> > > _______________________________________________
> > > 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
> > > Netiquette Guidelines are at http://live.gnome.org/Orca/FrequentlyAskedQuestions/NetiquetteGuidelines
> > > Log bugs and feature requests at http://bugzilla.gnome.org
> > > Find out how to help at http://live.gnome.org/Orca/HowCanIHelp
> >
> > -- 
> >
> > Janina Sajka,        Phone:  +1.443.300.2200
> >             sip:janina asterisk rednote net
> >
> > Chair, Open Accessibility    janina a11y org
> > Linux Foundation             http://a11y.org
> >
> > Chair, Protocols & Formats
> > Web Accessibility Initiative http://www.w3.org/wai/pf
> > World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)

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Janina Sajka,   Phone:  +1.443.300.2200
                sip:janina asterisk rednote net

Chair, Open Accessibility       janina a11y org 
Linux Foundation                http://a11y.org

Chair, Protocols & Formats
Web Accessibility Initiative    http://www.w3.org/wai/pf
World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)