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

[Christopher Chaltain <chaltain gmail com>]

I suspect you're right, although I'm not sure it's always the case that
more distros supporting a desktop equates to more accessibility people
working on it.

On 10/05/12 13:34, Alex Midence wrote:
> I personally wouldn't be surprised if Gnome shell keeps making big
> strides in accessibility as compared to Unity 3d if for no other
> reason that there are more people working on it since it is in use by
> a larger community.  Only Ubuntu uses Unity.  Compare that to how many
> distros use gnome and will use Gnome shell.  And, don't count out KDE.
>  They are coming along nicely.
>
> Alex M
>
>
> On 5/10/12, Christopher Chaltain <chaltain gmail com> wrote:
> > On 10/05/12 12:10, Thomas Ward wrote:
> > > In any case I really feel Gnome Shell will be the best long term
> > > option for a VI Linux user. No one knows exactly when KDE  willcatch
> > > up with accessibility, Unity 2D is getting canned, and Unity 3D may or
> > > may not be fully accessible by the next LTS release. For users of
> > > Fedora, Arch, Debian, etc I see Gnome Shell as being a part of their
> > > future as well.
> >
> > I don't know which desktop will end up being the best long term option
> > for a VI Linux user, but I wouldn't count out Unity 3D. With Luke and
> > others from the Ubuntu Accessibility community working on it, I'm
> > confident it'll be accessible long before 14.04 and before Unity 2D
> > stops being an option. I don't think there are any more guarantees that
> > Gnome 3.6 or Gnome 3.8 will be any more accessible than Unity 3D. My
> > hope is that they're both equally accessible, and we'll just have that
> > many more options.
> >
> > > On 5/10/12, Krishnakant Mane <krmane gmail com> wrote:
> > > > 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.
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