Re: [orca-list] best desktop environment for orca?

[Krishnakant Mane <kkmane riseup net>]

I have been using Ubuntu-mate 18.04 for some time now and I feel it hits 
the sweet spot.

Totally accessible and fast as well.

Even my sighted friends like it's look and feel.

Happy hacking.

Krishnakant.


On Saturday 19 May 2018 04:03 AM, Christopher Chaltain wrote:
> Ah, I'm running Ubuntu 16.04, so I don't think I'm running anything 
> close to Gnome 3.28. I run weeks without rebooting though, and I don't 
> notice any performance issues.
>
>
> On 05/18/2018 12:11 PM, Jace Kattalakis wrote:
> > Chris, Gnome 3.28 has a major memory leak though. I tried it on my 
> > high spec laptop and after about 6 hours of use it was using 5-6GB of 
> > RAM here on a default insttall.  Bear in mind that was durng the 
> > beta2 phase however.
> >
> > To the people who mentioned XFCE, what's the simplest way of getting 
> > Orca to work with it, just export the variables into my .xinitrc file 
> > or did that change over the years? I'll admit, never tried XFCE but 
> > now I want to in order to see what all the fuss is about.
> >
> > Jace
> >
> >
> > On 18/05/18 10:58, Christopher Chaltain wrote:
> > > I prefer Gnome myself. When I compared Mate, Unity and Gnome, I 
> > > found Gnome to be the most accessible. That was a while ago, so 
> > > things may have changed since then, but I've had no reason to 
> > > entertain the thought of changing desktops. I also notice no 
> > > sluggishness with Gnome, but I'm running on a pretty new machine 
> > > with pretty good specs, so accessibility and functionality is my 
> > > primary factor.
> > >
> > >
> > > On 05/17/2018 02:51 PM, Majid Hussain wrote:
> > > > heya mate,
> > > > I would go with mate myself, it is accessable lightwate on resources
> > > > so I would go with that.
> > > > gnome is another option however gnome is sluggish with responsiveness.
> > > > I hope this helps,
> > > > Majid Hussain
> > > >
> > > > On 17/05/2018, Jeanette C. <julien mail upb de> wrote:
> > > > > Hi Sammuel,
> > > > > I have tried different environments, also using Orca. Mate does 
> > > > > seem to be
> > > > > the
> > > > > best. I'm still not sure which window manager would be the best. 
> > > > > My current
> > > > >
> > > > > ~/.xinitrc only has the command:
> > > > > exec mate-session
> > > > >
> > > > > Good luck and best wishes,
> > > > >
> > > > > Jeanette
> > > > >
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> > > > >    * GitHub: https://github.com/jeanette-c
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> > > > >
> > > > > you made me realize..not to compromise
> > > > > the fact that you and i should meet... <3
> > > > > (Britney Spears)
> > > > > _______________________________________________
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> > > > > 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
> >
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> > GNOME Universal Access guide: 
> > https://help.gnome.org/users/gnome-help/stable/a11y.html
> > Log bugs and feature requests at http://bugzilla.gnome.org