Re: [orca-list] Ubuntu 12.10 and beyond, Unity 2D will no longer be maintained.

[Krishnakant Mane <krmane gmail com>]

Hi Thomas,
Might I add, while Unity 2d is really good and it has personally not 
been a bad experience for me with crashes and all, I see Gnome shell as 
a long term choice.
I just need to know if we will or are likely to have any support to 
access the launcher menu like the one in Unity 2D?
In any case, shortcut keys are good choice, but making the top panel 
accessible and having the launcher menu accessible will be the final 
touch to make Gnome shell compelling in terms of accessibility.
Happy hacking.
Krishnakant.
On 05/11/2012 12:03 AM, Thomas Ward wrote:
> Hi Andy,
>
> Well, I think that is a bit of a loaded question  because what is or
> is not the best desktop/shell is partly personal preference.  However,
> I do have some opinions on that subject based on personal experience.
> Since I'm using Ubuntu 12 my opinions here will be based on that
> distribution.
>
> As far as accessibility goes I think Unity 2D is probably the best
> over all option here.  That's high praise coming from me as wen I
> started using Unity 2D a year ago I absolutely didn't like it.
> However, a lot of time and work has gone into Unity 2D and its very
> accessible and user friendly now for a VI user.
>
> That said, I have had Unity 2D crash several times on me, and now that
> Unity 2D is scheduled to be dropped I'm not sure  how good an option
> it will be long term, and how much work will be put into fixing
> existing bugs and issues. So I'm personally looking elswhere.
>
> There is Gnome Classic and Gnome Fallback. These are obviously quite
> accessible, like Gnome 2.x, but they too are eventually going to get
> phased out. So its probably not a good idea to get to dependent on
> these packages either.
>
> In the end I settled on Gnome Shell, because its a good second for
> Unity 2D. The top panel still needs some work, the Dash needs more
> work as well, and there are some issues reading batteryh status, etc.
> However, none of those issues prevents a blind user from using Gnome
> Shell 3.4 successfully.
>
> For example, I am right at this moment using a Toshiba notebook
> computer with Ubuntu 12.04, Gnome Shell 3.4, and Orca 3.4.1.  To give
> you an idea of how productive I am right now in Gnome Shell I have
> Firefox open in my first workspace reading/writing e-mail. I have
> Writer open in workspace 2 where I am working on some documents. Last,
> I have Rhythmbox open in a third workspace playing my mp3 collection
> in the background. Obviously, I can be just as productive in Gnome
> Shell as Unity 2D, Gnome Classic, or anything else despite a few
> complications  using the Dash and top panel. What's more Gnome Shell
> doesn't crash all the time like Unity 2D does on this laptop, and
> Gnome Shell apparently has a long term support life ahead of it. so
> I'm personally voting for Gnome Shell as being the best for me.
>
> On 5/10/12, Andy B.<sonfire11 gmail com>  wrote:
> > What is the best desktop currently to use?
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