Re: [orca-list] XP-Like Theme wanted

["B. Henry" <burt1iband gmail com>]

The only distro that aims at anything like you are talking about that is alive and well, and actually from 
what I read well built and not just a flash 
in the pan is xoren OS.
Sorry if the spelling is wrong, but in the case it is it's on distrowatch, and will show up in google 
searches. 
I'm thinking it comes with orca by default, but not sulre now much tweaking is needed for good accessibility. 
I will repeat my advice, spend more time learning about Linux rather than just trying one distro after 
another, and especially stop wasting your time 
with the very out of date ones. 
It would not take you two weeks of using something like mate to be a very effective and comfortable user. It 
is better and more effecient than winxp in 
most ways, and if you install pcmanfm you'll have a more responsive file manager than windows explorer or 
caja, the default mate filemanager, which 
properly configured is quite good on most systems. 
If you do go for xoren, please give it a fair chance, and report on what is good and where accessibility may 
be lacking. You'll be on your own with this 
distro though most likely, or maybe, hopefully not, but by now you should know that no one uses the distros 
you ask about it seems, no one who needs 
speech anyway. If you've gotten off list replies from folks who do use wannabe windows distros, well you 
probably are best asking them directly for 
help. 
Good luck.

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     B.H.
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  Alex Midence wrote:
Fri, Dec 26, 2014 at 03:36:29PM -0600

> Probably not.  Closest you will get to that interface is Gnome Classic or Mate.  Why do you want xP 
> interface in Linux?  Probably have an easier time of it just using Windows and not migrating to Linux at 
> all.  
>
> Alex M
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: orca-list [mailto:orca-list-bounces gnome org] On Behalf Of Glenn / Lenny
> Sent: Friday, December 26, 2014 2:41 PM
> To: orca-list gnome org
> Subject: [orca-list] XP-Like Theme wanted
>
> Hi All,
> I just installed again, an XP-like remix of Ubuntu, based on Ubuntu 10.04.
> I really like the way it uses the Windows classic desktop, with "my computer", "my documents" and "recycle 
> bin".
> It even starts up and uses the windows sounds.
> It uses the Gnome desktop manager.
> But I would like to have this in a more recent version of Ubuntu.
> I tried upgrading this about a year ago, going to 11.04, and then 12, and to 13.
> But along the way, I lost the Windows-like theme, maybe even as soon as 11, I could not tell, because I 
> lost a lot of accessibility when going to 11.
> BTW, this is using Orca.
> Does anyone know if I can get a Ubuntu Gnome package and install an XP theme that was as XP-like, as the 
> 10.04 version that I currently install?
>
> Thanks.
> Glenn 
>
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