Re: [orca-list] [Support] Tox Messenger, it's a FOSS replacement for Skype; I have questions.

[Peter Vágner <pvdeejay gmail com>]

Hello,
I have played a bit more with this and here are a few observations:
- venom client appears as a modern gtk3 app to me. It even includes that 
top pannel menu typical for gnome 3.10 and gnome 3.12 applications. It 
is mostly accessible with a few quirks like that the contact list ntries 
are not read properly, contact list context menu can't be inwoked via 
keyboard but it has to be clicked by emulating the mouse.
I believe these are solvable accessibility related issues.
Also there is an unlabelled toggle button in the venom main window which 
brings up the menu. This one is not accessible. I think It would be 
usefull to label it with a text field where my nick is shown so I do 
know all is fine.
Also there are minor atk relations issues that interactive controls 
inside the preferences window are not clearly labelled. Of course for 
the time being this can be easily dealt with because there are only a 
few controls like this accessible via flat review.
Unfortunatelly I have found this is completelly inaccessible on windows. 
I have triet utox and also qtgui for tox so I have no chat partners for 
testing other functionalities e.g. reading incoming messages, doing 
voice calls and even the video. I am not sure how well this is supported 
accross various clients.

Anyway all in all venom clients is modern minimalistic powerfull app 
with just verry simple controls even for beginner so it is really 
perfectly suitable replacement for skype. Remember this is fully open 
source software, is in alpha state and these little quirks I have 
recognized so far can be fixed.

Hopefully the rest will turn out to be useable as well.

Greetings

Peter




On 29.06.2014 08:54, Peter Vágner wrote:
> Hello,
> There appears to be strong community around this project. I haven't 
> tried it so far however what is amazing eventhough I haven't yet 
> installed it is that they already have pidgin protocol plugin, version 
> for android and they are even considering IOS version.
> They are using GTK plus 3 on linux and QT 5 on linux and windows for 
> the user interface so at least there is a chance accessibility issues 
> are fixable I hope as they arise.
>
>
> Greetings
>
> Peter
>
> On 27.06.2014 19:39, Jonathan Nadeau wrote:
> > Yeah i'v heard of this six months ago but it was far to early to try and
> > use it. i'l have to check it out agian.
> >
> >
> >
> > On 06/27/2014 01:19 PM, D. A. H. wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I recently discovered the Tox Messenger project.
> > > https://tox.im/
> > > Tox aims to be a free, open-source replacement for Skype, offering
> > > text messaging, voip with optional video, and peer-to-peer, encrypted
> > > sessions.  Is anyone using this?  I'd like to add some contacts.  I
> > > believe the standard client has a QT5 gui. I found a gtk client called
> > > Venom; it's in the Arch User Repository as venom-git.  There are very
> > > few options to configure, unless most of the preferences pane is
> > > invisible?  There seems to be user account setup; ids are
> > > machine-generated. There is a user setup page, on which you put your
> > > human-recognizable name and status message.  If you want to add me,
> > > the tox id is:
> > >
> > > 6AB98F32D9FEC45A152419135A656560D7E4617B8FF4FFE62E3CCDED6EFB30610DD78C7C3170 
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > >
> > > Dave  Hunt
> > >
> > >
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