Re: [orca-list] check this out

[Jonathan Nadeau <j nadeau charter net>]

I couldn't have said it better myself. Thank you Alex.

On 08/24/2012 08:51 AM, Alex Midence wrote:
> Yes, Luke we do.  Some people don't want to sit around and wait for
> you guys to get Unity accessibility fixed and remain stuck using the
> LTS for who knows how long while more and more new stuff comes down
> the pipe which Ubuntu includes in it's six month releases.  It isn't
> fair to expect people to be happy using older packages when there are
> ways to use the newer ones.  Not everyone is conversant enough with
> accessibility infrastructure to get an inaccessible installation
> working which is what you would have to do in 12.10 and others who are
> conversant simply don't have the time.  So, it is nice that someone
> stepped up and did this for the community.  Now, all the improvements
> coming down in Gnome 3.6 will be available even to relative newbies
> because there's a spin that comes up talking straight out of the box.
> It may not have all the nice extra customizations and things but, hey,
> you can't have everything.  Vinux is wonderful but there hasn't been
> anything new in a while.  Precise has been out for months now and 4.0
> is still in the works last I heard and, anyway it was to be based on
> Precise.  For those who like Ubuntu and would like to be able to use a
> new version when it comes out, this spin does the trick.  I can't
> imagine that Gnubuntu release I read about earlier this week coming up
> talking so, not even that would fit the very specific bill.  In a
> nutshell, there is a demand for this very thing, someone has risen to
> the challenge and addressed it and there are those of us in the user
> community who are glad they did.
>
>
> BR,
> Alex M
>
>
>
> On 8/23/12, Luke Yelavich <themuso ubuntu com> wrote:
> > On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 11:22:37AM EST, Jonathan Nadeau wrote:
> > > Hey List,
> > >
> > > I would like to let you know about Sonar GNU/Linux.
> > *sighs*
> >
> > Why do people all have to spring up and do their own thing? Projects like
> > F123 make sense, because there are locale specific requirements there, but
> > as for general distro derivatives, we really should be pooling all our
> > resources together. I'm particularly thinking of Ubuntu here. We already
> > have Vinux, so outside of F123, do we really need another one?
> >
> > Luke
> > _______________________________________________
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> > orca-list gnome org
> > https://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
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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.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