Re: [orca-list] mate, accessibility, magnifier

[kendell clark <coffeekingms gmail com>]

hi
This is great news. If hypra takes it over and it's indeed usable,
eventually we could have a sonar mate edition with compiz turned on.
Thanks
Kendell Clark


MENGUAL Jean-Philippe wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> Le 14/03/2016 07:23, kendell clark a écrit :
> > hi
> > If I'm understanding this right, mate doesn't have a proper magnifier,
> Right. However Mate has unique customization features as you can set the
> size, font, colour of GTK widgets, it's no longer possible on ot:er
> modern desktops, where themes, wallpapers, are in css impossible to
> modify without code.
>
> > which is wanted. When they have transitioned over to gtk3 they should be
> > able to use the one provided either by ... I'm not sure if gtk3 provides
> > the magnifier or gnome shell. Either way they should be able to make use
> I don't know but I think magnification is related to gnome-shell, not gtk3.
>
> > of it. I'll file an issue and make some noise so they know this is
> > something people want. This should be possible to do without requiring
> > gnome shell, but rather the proper libraries. I'm not exactly sure how
> > all this works but I'll learn. I've never messed with compiz, mostly
> > because getting it going is a lot of fiddling, and in the end the
> > workspaces and window titles are not announced, so this is why sonar
> > doesn't use it. Plus, unless someone else has taken it over I believe
> It is, now. Latest release fixes this problam.
>
> > it's been abandoned.
> Not really. Still maintained for at least 10 years in Canonical's repo.
> Later, we'll see, but Hypra could maintain if still needed for
> magnification and to make compatible flexibility and visual effects.
>
> Regards,
>
> > Thanks
> > Kendell Clark
> >
> >
> > MENGUAL Jean-Philippe wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > >
> > > Le 14/03/2016 02:39, Alonzo Cuellar a écrit :
> > > >   Hello,
> > > > If I understand correctly, you can have Mate with a magnifier. However,
> > > > I would have to use Compiz. Does this mean Orca would be able to be used
> > > > with Compiz?  If so what would I do to make Orca work well with compiz? 
> > > Yes, nothing needs to be done. Just a hack (we'll fix properly before
> > > end March) so that windows and workspace title is spoken.o either you
> > > apply the hack, or you wait end of this week to test the update with us,
> > > where windows title will be spoken natively.
> > >
> > >
> > > > I've installed Compiz on m Arch Linux installation, but when I activate
> > > > it I see no way to do anthing with Orca and Mate.
> > > Because you need to enable proper plugins. I don have the list here, but
> > > it explains your problem I think. You can see our repo, our packages
> > > with our configuration choices (gsettings). Se our developmcot page.
> > > Everything is done in our mate-accessibility package.
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > >
> > > > Alonzo
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> > > > orca-list gnome org
> > > > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/orca-list
> > > > Orca wiki: https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Orca
> > > > Orca documentation: https://help.gnome.org/users/orca/stable/
> > > > GNOME Universal Access guide:
> > > > https://help.gnome.org/users/gnome-help/stable/a11y.html
> > > > Log bugs and feature requests at http://bugzilla.gnome.org