Re: [orca-list] MATE

[kendell clark <coffeekingms gmail com>]

hi
I'm using mate myself, and have as my primary desktop for sever months. Sales pitch aside, I don't know of a 
mate 
specific email program, only thunderbird.
 I've had very good results with the mate devs, on #mate on freenode. They fix accessibility bugs usually 
promptly. Some 
of the stuff I thought were bugs were in fact user error on my part, so I eventually figured those out. The 
desktop,  
panels, etc are all accessible, except the top one. I'm not sure why, but orca does not like the top panel. 
If you move 
all stuff onto the bottom panel it works just fine. The alt tab switcher doesn't read yet, nor does the 
workspace 
switcher. Those are bugs and have been filed. I personally think orca needs to be a little more involved in 
mate and 
other alternative desktops, but I'm not the orca devs and don't have their workload.
Thanks
Kendell clark


On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 01:44:55AM +0200, MENGUAL Jean-Philippe wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I hesitate to install MATE hard on my computer. I wonder for this:
> 1. Is there again a mail app such as Evolution forked, or only Thunderbird?
> 2. If I experience an accessibility bug, is it more suitable to investigate
> in Orca or in Mate itself?
> 3. Do you know really problematic accessibility issues with MATE, for those
> who used? I heard of issues with notification area, in particular with
> Skype. What's the situation? Could be fixed through Orca updates, or is it
> due to MATE?
> 4. Do you know if installing Compiz has bad effects on Orca working?
>
> Regards,
>
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