Re: [orca-list] accessibility of snapt packages?

[kendell clark <coffeekingms gmail com>]

hi

I couldn't agree more re joanie. I ask her to do stuff when she has 
time, others ask her to do stuff when she has time, her company pays her 
to work on stuff, she's the only one making sure orca keeps getting 
better, with the exception of translators, she's the main coder, so she 
does a lot, and I do mean a lot, of work. I don't think I could do all 
the work she does without burning out several times over. In addition to 
that, she's very kind and diplomatic. My message sounded like a two year 
old who was frustrated someone took his ball, and she just shrugged and 
said send me a debug file, when she could've said ubuntu bug, bug them, 
or said nothing, and I'd have been screwed. As for snap packages, you 
can do snap install packagename, without sudo, it will open a gtk dialog 
for your password. You can also do snap search packagename, snap info 
packagename, snap remove packagename, and a bunch of stuff I don't mess 
with. Gnome software can also install packages from the "snap store", so 
that's an option. Looking at snapcraft, the main hq for snap, snapd and 
the associated packages that make it work run on ubuntu, mint, arch, 
debian, gentoo, and others. The one bad thing about snap is that a lot 
of the packages are proprietary, although that's not snap's fault. There 
are open source things too, like mumble, telegram, and firefox, but 
there are also closed source stuff, like skype, spotify and slack. I am 
glad that linux has an app store like thing, that works across linux 
distros. I wish more of it was open, but shrug. All of the underpinnings 
are open, and that's good enough for me. Gnome software, snap, snapd, 
and all of the things snap needs to run are all open, it's just some of 
the apps in the store that aren't.

Thanks

Kendell Clark



On 03/21/2018 05:57 AM, Alex ARNAUD wrote:
> Le 20/03/2018 à 21:09, kendell clark a écrit :
> > hi
>
> Hi Kendell,
>
> > which so far doesn't seem to be done. Snap packages get access to the 
> > resources they need except accessibility services, I think. I'm not 
> > absolutely positive about this, but I download a snap version of 
> > firefox,
>
> How do you have install it? I'm not familiar with snap.
>
>  and it was a blank window called "firefox", so orca doesn't
> > seem to be able to see it, and firefox is very much accessible. I 
> > wonder if the ubuntu guys would fix this,
>
> It's indeed ubuntu-related issue.
>
>  or if joanie could work on it when
> > she has time? 
>
> I don't want to talk for Joanie but it seems she has already enough 
> work to do with Orca bugs and improvement.
>
> Best regards,
> Alex.

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