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Re: [orca-list] Which distribution to switch to from Windows? [was "Re: A real message with a question"]

You want the beginner's guide and also read Chris Brannon's page on eyes 
free install of archlinux in the arch wiki.  The arch-general list is 
under extreme moderation and I am personally glad me and the moderator do 
not live next to each other.  More than that I will not write. On Thu, 29 
Nov 2012, D.J.J. Ring, Jr. wrote:


Peter,

Would you post a new topic on the Vinux Support mail list on How to install
Jully Talking Arch to get latest GNOME Desktop that has the best ORCA
support?

I have tried installing Arch for several days failing each time to get a
working Command Line Interface each time.  Obviously I am not finding the
correct documentation, or I am stupid, ignorant and blind.

Or both <smile>.

It would be awesome if there was a script for this, or if there is if there
is, that it's location were more prominanently shown, or better yet, if it
could be hooked into the script I did find by a Y/N question of do you want
to install Command Line Interface? Then, do you want to install latest
GNOME Desktop?

I wish instead of a package for GNOME Desktop there would be a script just
to install the packages so yhat when a user wishes to uninstall a package
that is NOT accessible, it does not break the package GNOME-Desktop and
uninstall ALL of GNOME leaving the user with a broken Graphical User
Interface  and loosing ORCA as well.

Debian policy of non-free makes it difficult for new users and also for
experienced users who want the accessibility of the latest Firefox and
Thunderbird versus the much older and renamed iceweasel and icedove.

I work around this by installing Debian MINT, installing Firefox,
Thunderbird, multimedia codecs and then changing /etc/apt/sources.list to
add Debian repositories.

David

Thanks,

David Ring
N1EA

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 On Nov 29, 2012 7:51 AM, "Peter V?gner" <pvdeejay gmail com> wrote:


Hello,
Unfortunatelly this does not answer the original question however I must
add it as I do like the idea.
I have recently installed arch using the jully talking arch which works
well.
There were some little things I had to deal with until it started fully
working like I wanted it to however what I like about arch is that they
have nice wiki with a lot of perfectly written articles. While following
their install and beginner guides you can learn how the distro works so you
will then get prapared for some real maintenance.
With ubuntu it is still quicker to reinstall once something breaks up and
I hope with arch power users can become just a bit more powerfull by knowig
some more details.

The only thing which does not work for me in my arch install is accessible
login screen. It uses gdm and I dont know how to launch orca and set all
the appropriate accessibility related properties while gdm session starts.

Greetings

Peter



On 29.11.2012 07:55, D.J.J. Ring, Jr.  wrote:


Debian sid has GNOME Desktop with cinnemon  which is like GNOME 2 and is
accessible.

MATE is just like  GNOME 2 but uses mate applications which are
inaccessible.

Debian Sid has latest GNOME 3 point something which just came out which
makes GNOME 3 just likr GNOME 2 but only much better.  Ubuntu doesn't
have it.

With Debian Sid you always have the latest packages and it rolls instead
of being released.

Debian's problems are you have to add multimedia and non-free
repositories to it.  Also Debian will not allow Firefox or Thunderbird
because the icons  are copyrighted.

Also Debian used Desktop packages as does Ubuntu so if you wanted to
remove mate-terminal  and put in gnome-terminal which talks, the package
system says it has to remove the rest of GNOME.  Really stupid.

Easiest thing to do is install Debian MINT, edit /etc/apt/sources file
and paste in Debian sources and put # in front of the Debian MINT sources.

You can use smxi to do updates.

Unfortunately you have to edit that script file and comment out the
section that mentions Debian MINT because smxi thinks it will not work.

Debian is much easier to use than Ubuntu if you do a bit of work..

Also you need to know what drivers you nerd for wifi but once you know
the name it is done for you.

Debian could use jockey-gtk but that darned FREE software policy does
not allow that.

If Ubuntu goes back to a recular desktop, all will be well.

If someone made a working command line iso file of ARCH linux that talks
I would go with that as it has the very new GNOME that one again talks
even though it is designed for touch screen which is a seeing thing.  I
would install ARCH in a heartbeat but I have tried three three times to
install but I cannot do it, it is like the instructions are missing.

But even with Ubuntu going touch screen and MATE which is a 2.0 like
desktop, all that insanity is still better than Windows.

David

On Nov 28, 2012 7:53 PM, "Christopher Chaltain" <chaltain gmail com
<mailto:chaltain gmail com>> wrote:

    Why wouldn't you consider Ubuntu? I think Ubuntu 12.04 LTS would be
    close to what you're looking for.

    On 28/11/12 18:48, John J. Boyer wrote:
     > I am thinking of switching from Windows to Linux for ofgice work.
    So I
     > want to avoid the bleeding edge, but I do want reasonably
up-to-date
     > accessibility features and desktop. I'll be using LibreOffice. What
     > would be a good compromise between Ubuntu and CentOS?
     >
     > Thanks,
     > John
     >
     > On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 06:23:07PM -0500, Thomas Ward wrote:
     >> Hello John,
     >>
     >>
     >> On 11/28/12, John J. Boyer <john boyer abilitiessoft com
    <mailto:john boyer **abilitiessoft com <john boyer abilitiessoft com>>>
wrote:
     >>>
     >>> My question is whether anyone has had experience with Orca on
    CentOS
     >>> 6.3.
     >>
     >> Well, is there something specific you want to know? About the only
     >> thing I can tell you is because CentOS is largely using Enterprise
     >> packages like Red Hat Enterprise the accessibility stack is
    extremely
     >> old. From what I can tell CentOS 6.3 is still using Gnome 2.x and
     >> at-spi 1.x, and they are way behind in terms of modern Orca
     >> dependencies etc. This isn't unusual for Enterprise Linux as every
     >> Enterprise system I've seen over the last couple of years is way
     >> behind in terms of VI access packages where distributions like
    Ubuntu
     >> try to stay on the bleeding edge of things.
     >>
     >> Cheers!
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     >> The manual is at
    http://library.gnome.org/**users/gnome-access-guide/**
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