Re: [orca-list] why Skype works in Ubuntu 15.04

[kendell clark <coffeekingms gmail com>]

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hi
Well, on ubuntu, you can do sudo apt-get install qt-at-spi:i386. That
will pull in qt at-spi, which is the thing that makes orca able to
talk to qt4 applications, and all it's dependencies. After that, it's
just a matter of installing skype, and you should be done. On fedora,
you can do sudo dnf install qt-at-spi.i686. After that, install skype
and you're done. On arch, I'm not completely sure, although if you can
download a 32 bit version of qt-at-spi from arch's site, just go to
archlinux.org, click on package search, enter qt-at-spi in the box and
download the 32 bit version, you can extract thae archive into
/usr/lib32/qt4/plugins, and then install skype
Thanks
Kendell clark


Derek Roberts wrote:
> So, have any guides been written about compiling the 32-bit version
> of the library in a 64-bit system? Yes, they should update the
> thing. But for right now, this is what we've got.
>
> Thanks, KJ4UFX
>
> On 5/14/15, kendell clark <coffeekingms gmail com> wrote: hi I kind
> of jumped in the middle of this. Does he need to use skype for his
> job? I don't think he should use skype. That said, it *is* possible
> to get it working. My main objection was that linux shouldn't go
> out of it's way to support an application that can't move with the 
> times, not necessarily that it was owned by microsoft. If ms were 
> serious about supporting skype on linux, they'd have built it for
> 64 bit qt, making all this effort to get it working unnecessary.
> Then my only objection would be that it's closed source, which
> isn't enough of an objection to yell at a person for wanting to use
> it. To sum up, I didn't write that email because it's microsoft
> skype, but rather because it's a 32 bit qt application, and getting
> those talking with orca on a 64 bit system is not trivial. And when
> it doesn't work, who gets blamed? Linux. Linux should make it easy,
> why doesn't this work, ... etc etc. Thanks Kendell clark
>
>
> Christopher Chaltain wrote:
> > > > On 05/13/2015 05:26 PM, kendell clark wrote:
> > > > > As for skype ... not to sound harsh or uncaring, but fsck 
> > > > > microsoft. If they cannot and will not rebuilt their
> > > > > application to at the very least use 64 bit qt4 libraries,
> > > > > which, while being phased out, are at least still supported
> > > > > upstream, then they don't deserve your business, obsession,
> > > > > whatever you want to call it.
> > > >
> > > > There are plenty of people who need to use Skype as part of
> > > > their jobs. This has nothing to do with people wanting to
> > > > give Microsoft their business or being obsessed about
> > > > Microsoft products. I used Skype in a previous job, and I'm
> > > > sorry, but I'm not going to be unemployed over an
> > > > unwillingness to use a product where the developers have yet
> > > > to port their application over to a new library. I don't care
> > > > how you feel about Microsoft, and everyone can have their own
> > > > opinion, but I think it is pretty harsh to tell a blind
> > > > person who needs to use Skype as part of their job that they
> > > > just shouldn't use a Microsoft product.
> > > >
> > > > BTW, I'm not so sure Microsoft isn't going to update Skype
> > > > for Linux. A lot of nay sayers said Microsoft would kill
> > > > Skype on Linux when they first acquired it, and they've since
> > > > released updates to Skype for Linux. For Skype to be
> > > > successful, it has to have a lot of users, and Microsoft
> > > > needs to support it on Linux like clients, even if they don't
> > > > see Linux as a big market.
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> > http://library.gnome.org/users/gnome-access-guide/nightly/ats-2.html
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