Re: [orca-list] am installing kde desktop and have some questions

[Hank Smith <hanksmith hanksmith net>]

I don't have gnome installed would gnome session fall back work for this 
if I were to go install it?
currently I have unity and kde installed.
On 8/14/2012 9:24 AM, Alex Midence wrote:
> Do you currently have Gnome installed as well?  If so, I'd set Orca up from
> within Gnome and not KDE.  I'd also go into alacarte and enable the kde
> configuration application and select it from within Gnome and customize what
> theme you will use and make whatever other adjustments you want at that time
> as well.  You need to set it up so that when you bring up KDE, bringing up
> the screen reader is as painless as possible.  Trying to do all that from
> KDE itself can be trying to put it mildly.  Also, you may have better luck
> with terminal applications running gnome-terminal instead of Konsole from
> alt f2 but that is just my experience.  When I was trying out KDE in the
> spring, Konsole was not accessible.
>
> BR,
> Alex M
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: orca-list-bounces gnome org [mailto:orca-list-bounces gnome org] On
> Behalf Of Frederik Gladhorn
> Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2012 9:21 AM
> To: orca-list gnome org
> Subject: Re: [orca-list] am installing kde desktop and have some questions
>
> Mandag 13. august 2012 20.35.52 skrev Hank Smith:
> > how do I get orca running o kde?
> > when I run
> > alt f 2
> > orca -t
> > and press 1 to select speech engine nothing happens.
> I think running orca with -t doesn't work from KRunner. Just running orca
> works for me. I don't know about first time setup though. Otherwise you
> could
> run:
> alt-f2
> konsole
> orca -t
>
> to get the text setup.
> Cheers
> Frederik
>
> > I do have a default display manager set that is set properly.
> > Hank
> >
> > On 8/13/2012 8:03 AM, Frederik Gladhorn wrote:
> > > Søndag 12. august 2012 18.43.39 skrev Jude DaShiell:
> > > > kde desktop probably will need the kde-accessibility package
> > > > downloaded as well.  There's supposed to be a screen reader in
> > > > kde-accessibility called jovie.
> > > Jovie is not a screen reader, it is a text to speech application. It
> > > will not suffice if you are looking for a screen reader. You should
> > > probably use Orca. There is a very experimental small screen reader
> > > called KAccessible but it's not advanced enough for any real usuage
> > > I would guess.
> > >
> > > Cheers
> > > Frederik
> > >
> > > > If that works or how well for me is unknown.  The kde project has
> > > > nothing like a vinux disk done with kde.
> > > >
> > > > On Sun, 12 Aug 2012, Hank Smith wrote:
> > > > > Hello am installing kde desktolp
> > > > > what is not accessible and what is accessible?
> > > > > also any tips or info where I can read on gettting start3ed with
> > > > > kde desktop? Hank
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> > > > 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.htm
> > > > l The FAQ is at http://live.gnome.org/Orca/FrequentlyAskedQuestions
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> The manual is at
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> The FAQ is at http://live.gnome.org/Orca/FrequentlyAskedQuestions
> Log bugs and feature requests at http://bugzilla.gnome.org Find out how to
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> 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


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