Re: [orca-list] Orca and current best compatible linux distro and desktop

[kendell clark <coffeekingms gmail com>]

hi
All these things work. There are problems with the sonar mate edition
that have nothing to do with mate itself. Something we're doing is
preventing built images from booting. The top and bottom panels can
sometimes be a little weird with orca, but this is all supposed to be
fixed once mate finishes moving over to gtk3, which it's currently in
the process of doing. For right now mate is more than
usable.Notifications work if the notify-osd package is installed,
otherwise mate's notifications do not speak. There's an open bug against
this that's currently being worked on. I'm involved with the mate
community to get these bugs fixed.

Thanks
Kendell clark


On 11/02/2015 05:33 AM, kk wrote:
> Wow mate!
> I am surprised how fast it has become so accessible!
> Just a few weeks back I was reading a few mails on this as well as Sonar
> list and there were quite a few problems with it?
> So what is the current status like?
> For a desktop to be usable full-time on production machine for a blind
> person, we need notifications to be accessible, main menu to be
> accessible and the top or bottom panels if they exist.
> Apart from this things like alt_tab must read the window title correctly
> when the focus changes.
> All possible widgets must be as far as possible accessible.
> Does Mate satisfy all this as of now?
> Again, I am asking because I saw some discussion about this a few days
> back.
> Happy hacking.
> Krishnakant.
>
>
> On Monday 02 November 2015 03:38 PM, kendell clark wrote:
> > hi
> >   I can take a stab at it. The currently accessible desktops are gnome,
> > mate, and unity. Any distro with those desktops are accessible. However,
> > this is a big one. Not all distros ship with orca installed. For that,
> > the following are good distros. Sonar has both a gnome and a mate
> > edition. Ubuntu, either it's unity flavor, which is the default or it's
> > mate edition, located at http://ubuntu-mate.org. Talking arch if you
> > like to set up your system manually, vinux which is based on ubuntu but
> > has speech and braille enabled by default. My last recommendation would
> > be fedora's workstation edition. You're not lacking for choices, but
> > these are some of the most popular. There's also trisquel if you want
> > exclusively free software, it's accessible by default.
> > Thanks
> > Kendell clark
> >
> >
> > On 11/02/2015 03:41 AM, Bart Bunting wrote:
> > > Hi there,
> > >
> > > Not meaning to start a flame war just hoping for some objective answers.
> > >
> > > I haven't been running orca for some time and am installing a linux
> > > system tomorrow running orca.
> > >
> > > I am trying to decide which distro to go with and even in the case of
> > > Ubuntu which flavour.
> > >
> > > Can anyone offer advice as to which distribution and desktop is
> > > currently most compatible with orca head.
> > >
> > > I am considering Debian Jessie, Debian testing, Ubuntu probably the
> > > 15.10 release, and if I was to go Ubuntu should I load the default unity
> > > release or go for a ubuntu-gnome distro?
> > >
> > > As I said I'm looking to be able to run the orca master code with a
> > > desktop that has the best chance of working reasonably well.
> > >
> > > Any advice is most welcome.
> > >
> > > Kind regards
> > > Bart
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