Re: [orca-list] OT, tintin sound pack, emacspeak and speechd-el are now in the sonar repositories

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

What is
this?
the distribution independent installer,
called calamares, 
current state of accessability?
How much programming knowledge is required to adapt it to a distribution?


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  kendell clark wrote:
Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 06:15:48PM -0500

> hi all
> J`           ust writing in to let everyone know that I've just gotten phil mooler
> from manjaro to add tux's sound and trigger pack for alter aeon, as well
> as emacspeak and speechd-el to the manjaro repositories, and they'll be
> actively maintained. I've been trying to work with luke to get the
> tintin pack packaged up for vinux so all you vinux users out there can
> benefit as well. I think emacspeak is already in the ubuntu repositories
> courtesy of debian.
> That brings me to something I've been wanting to say for a long time.
> While I'm not as active in  the vinux community as I once was, that does
> *not* mean that I have anything against vinux or it's developers, nor
> does it mean I don't like them. When I originally left I might have had
> something I thought was a reason, but it's been so long ago I can't
> remember, but it's under the bridge now. I've somehow become the blind
> linux evangelist, so I'm sort of distro agnostic. I help everyone,
> regardless of distribution. So if I seem to suddenly not connect to
> channels I used to constantly, it's because I've been trying to improve
> accessibility for three desktops, gnome, mate and cinnamon, two distros,
> fedora and sonar, as well as get the distribution independent installer,
> called calamares, usable. I'm also a writer for opensource.com, trying
> to counter some of the "gotta have windows" messages thrown out there by
> blind windows fans, and I can only handle so much at one time.
> Thanks
> Kendell clark
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