Re: [orca-list] Skye and Orca

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

Well, so far I do not find things so problematic.
I just went to the skype web app page for the first time, logged in to my skype account with out issue, and 
things seem quite usable so far. 
I saw a list of conversataions, call history was easy to read, and opened a profile to check it. I could 
navigate around in the profile, and so after 
checking some data in said profile I pressed the button to close it/everything worked as expected. 
Finally I sent a msg to a contact; again there was no problem.
I was also able to enter settings and unckeck one I did not want. I deleted a conversation with out issue as 
well. 
I see controls to call, video call and show contacts. 
I see no show stoppers. It does take a bit of intuition and or practice to know when/where to use arrows and 
when to use the tab key. I had to press enter 
once or twice when I thought spacebar might have pressed the control 
I had focus jump on me once or twice when I tried to activate a control uising space instead of enter, but 
the page is not cluttered and or overly large, 
so this was no big deal at all. 
Where do you have trouble?
BTW, this is using firefox on arch linux with orca from the master branch, a version from a few days ago, 
I'll update now or later today, but doubt orca 
version is going to make a difference.
All in all I am quite happy with this alternative.
-- 
     B.H.
   Registerd Linux User 521886


  B. Henry wrote:
Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 10:53:12PM -0600

> OK, now I understand your original post much better/thanks.
> I'll look at the things you mention and see what happens. 
> I always have kept and recommended that others keep last known to work version of skype, and some other 
> things, mozi programs for example. 
> As for the  lib32-qt4 package, well I've not been ofered any updates that have broken anything. 
> I have a version from the end of Oct, built on the 25th I think, and not had any seg falting or any 
> obnoxcious behavior so far.
> Are you building this from source, using a testing repo, or are you having problems with the version
> 4.8.7-6
> that I am running?
> I made plans  to momstly live with out skype a couple or three years ago, i.e. keeep an account active for 
> emergency traveling, but not use it on my 
> production machine(s). 
> I now have a n android phone that gives me another way to use skype as well, but it is handy to have on my 
> laptop as one can say, "just instll skype", and 
> not need to walk them through alternatives if they do not already have it, and pretty often I find 
> businesses that I need to deal with have a skype 
> account. 
> I do hope that MS does not make a mess of things, even short term, but one nver knows. 
> I probably said too much, and certainly do not want to get the anti skype crowd up in arms, nor for that 
> matter have ppl think I'm a skype basher. 
> Thos who know me might know my thoughts re skype, others, well guess...lol  
>
> -- 
>      B.H.
>    Registerd Linux User 521886
>
>
>   Tyna Pelletier-Bilodeau wrote:
> Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 10:13:44PM -0500
>
> > Hi there,
> > what I meant was that latest lib32-qt4 package pretty much breaks skype
> > client. At first it was complaining that a file was missing so you couldn't
> > use skype at all. Then that got fixed, but skype is now segfaulting. A bug
> > report was opened, but it will never be fixed. So you need to keep lib32-qt4
> > out of date in order to beable to run it at all. With this old client you
> > can no longer join a conference call/chat if there are windows users in
> > there. It will refuse you access, telling you to upgrade skype. Calls to
> > individuals are still possible, but it's probably only a matter of time till
> > microsoft remove support for that 4.3 version from their servers. As to why
> > the issue will never be fixed, it's because skype is old, unmaintained, and
> > that arch no longer distribute it in its official repositories. Skype is the
> > only program affected by this issue. For using web.skype.com you will need
> > chromium+chromevox. It is a must as of now, most things are grayed out in
> > firefox, and it's not that accessible even, same thing if you faked out your
> > user agent to make them believe you are running chromium, it won't work, it
> > is even worse.
> > Le 2016-11-17 20:25, B. Henry a écrit :
> > > I do not know what you are talking about.
> > > I am running skype on arch-Linux, updated a few days ago.
> > > Things do not appear much different. My contacts appear as they always have, and I made a skype out 
> > > call, as well as a test call; both worked as always.
> > > Are you saying that we can't get to the skype website via the linux skype client?
> > > If so, is this a very big problem?
> > > Is there something important we can not do?
> > > I assume I can still do things opn the website from firefox or chrome, but will check if I have time 
> > > later on tonight or tomorrow.
> >
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