Re: [orca-list] Gnome 3.4 and Desktop Sounds

["Alex Midence" <alex midence gmail com>]

Actually, you know something?  It's not half bad, the desktop.  If you can get gtk+ apps to talk to you, you 
could use it today, I think.  I was pleasantly surprised last night when I fired it up.  You just have to set 
the desktop to classic menus instead of the favorites and you can get to your apps with no problem.  Just 
make sure you have the latest qt-at-spi bridge installed by pulling it from gitorious.  Oh yeah, and go into 
the console to export QT_ACCESSIBILITY=1 before putting your password into Lightdm.  Once it talks, hit alt 
f1 to get to favorites area and tab around a bit.  Inside this area you can hit the menu key to the left of 
the right control key on your keyboard and arrow to where you can set it to classic desktop.  After that, you 
just hit alt f1 and you get a menu similar to gnome 2's applications menu.  Once KDE comes up, you can alt f2 
and type in Orca just like you do in Gnome. No speech in Gnome apps like Gedit, Pidgin and company is the 
only thing stopping me from using it for a bit right now.  There's a cli string to get it working involving 
gail but I can't recall it at present.  You can't make KDE jump through hoops for you right now but for 
launching applications, managing your windows for you, tweaking your system settings and that sort of thing, 
I'd estimate that it is about 80% usable.  It is very interesting to explore, I'll tell you that.

Regards,
Alex M


-----Original Message-----
From: orca-list-bounces gnome org [mailto:orca-list-bounces gnome org] On Behalf Of Thomas Ward
Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2012 11:02 AM
To: orca-list
Subject: Re: [orca-list] Gnome 3.4 and Desktop Sounds

Hi Alex,

Yeah, I know about KDE having desktop sounds. In that regard KDE has always seemed more Windows theme 
oriented than Gnome, but until the KDE accessibility improves that's not really an option for me. We are just 
now getting to the point where some Qt apps work, but the desktop still has a ways to go before its a serious 
accessibility consideration. So I was hoping there was some way to get that functionality under Gnome. If not 
I'd be interest to know of what other choices I would have if I want something on par with Windows theme 
manager with sounds, icons, and background wallpaper to match.

Cheers!


On 6/5/12, Alex Midence <alex midence gmail com> wrote:
> KDE has system sounds.  At least, I think they do.  I still get a 
> login sound when I fire it up, at any rate.  So, it's just Gnome, not 
> all of Linux.
>
> Alex M
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