Re: [orca-list] Podcasts and/or audio tutorials needed

[Christopher Chaltain <chaltain gmail com>]

As long as we're talking about volunteers working on podcasts and 
tutorials then I'd say the person should use whatever desktop and 
distribution they're familiar with. Otherwise, we'll get either no 
tutorials at all or poorly done ones. I'd say go for it if you want to 
do a tutorial on Mate.

If we're talking about forming a team which has a mission to produce 
tutorials for Orca and people are going to set aside their preferences 
for particular desktops and distributions for the greater good then we 
can debate on which desktops and distributions to use.


On 09/07/2015 04:59 AM, Tony Baechler wrote:
> I am writing this on list because I would like list members' opinions on
> this.  What do you think?  Am I going at this from the wrong direction?
>
> On 9/6/2015 9:03 PM, Luke Yelavich wrote:
> > On Sat, Sep 05, 2015 at 07:49:31AM AEST, Glenn wrote:
> > And therein lies the problem. With multiple desktop environments that
> > are accessible, Unity, GNOME, which one do you focus on?
> Luke, your posts have really, really long lines which make it difficult
> to quote.
>
> Eventually, it would be good to have tutorials for all desktops,
> including KDE if it becomes really accessible.  For now, I would focus
> on MATE.  The reasons why I would pick MATE over the rest are as follows:
>
> 1. It's very stable.  It's had many years of development being
> originally a fork of Gnome 2.  I've never had it crash or do anything odd.
>
> 2. It's fast.  I can arrow through the menus with no delay.  It runs
> well on older hardware and isn't resource intensive.
>
> 3. It has good keyboard support.  I can arrow through the menus, use the
> file manager, switch among apps, etc from the keyboard.  I didn't like
> Gnome 3 because if you don't know the magic key combination to get to
> the menus, nothing seems to happen.  With MATE, I have a more
> traditional desktop.
>
> 4. It is now an officially supported Ubuntu derivative, so anyone can
> download and burn a Ubuntu MATE 15.04 DVD and have speech.  As a nice
> bonus, if a sighted user installs Ubuntu MATE, Orca is included, thus
> making their skills transferrable.  Even if they get a donated machine
> with MATE already on it, they can still get some use out of the tutorials.
>
> As an aside, I would eventually like to be able to get computers with
> Linux already on them for sale or donations to those in need, but that's
> a very long way off.
> Finally, it's more like Windows XP.  For people coming from Windows,
> they'll find it easier to adapt since the layout is very much like what
> they're used to using.  Although MATE doesn't have a search like Windows
> 7 does, Windows 7 still has the start menu, so even Windows 7 users
> shouldn't have a problem switching.
>
> Eventually, if the MATE tutorial goes over well, I would consider the
> other desktops, but we have to start somewhere.
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