Re: [orca-list] Gnome or mate?

[Andy Borka <sonfire11 gmail com>]

What is in the works for easier navigation in Mate?


On 1/11/19 7:41 AM, Didier Spaier wrote:
> Please be patient, navigation between Mate's panels and the desktop will become easier soon.
>
> How soon? Hopefully within two weeks.
>
> Best,
>
> Didier
>
> On 11/01/2019 12:39, Devin Prater via orca-list wrote:
> > The networking panel and such is the "top panel." You have to go to the bottum panel and press alt+shift+tab to get to 
> > the top panel. How Mate got the reputation as "most accessible desktop" is a bit beyond me because of this glaring 
> > issue that took me a good half hour on IRC to figure out. This using Slint Linux, which doesn't have Gnome.
> >
> > Sent from my iPhone
> >
> > > On Jan 10, 2019, at 2:54 PM, Tim via orca-list <orca-list gnome org> wrote:
> > >
> > > Sounds easy enough. Yeah the equities overview was the only thing that I got stuck on, the top bar is pretty 
> > > usable. But I can agree with you on mate, that it does act more like a traditional desktop. But for as long 
> > > as I can remember, I've always played hell with the panels, the bottom panel becomes inaccessible at some 
> > > point, the icons for networking Etc strangely just up and disappeared. So I said whatever, and for now, I'm 
> > > sticking with gnome, but I do like both.
> > >
> > > > On January 10, 2019 12:26:23 PM CST, Andy Borka via orca-list <orca-list gnome org> wrote:
> > > > To navigate the activities window, press and hold CTRL+ALT and then press TAB. It should cycle you between 
> > > > the dash (favorite applications), search, all apps, and something else I can't quite remember. To navigate 
> > > > the apps in the favorites or all apps view, just use the arrow keys, then press RETURN on the app you want to 
> > > > use. If you want to add an app to your favorites, press the WINDOWS or SUPER key, type enough of the app's 
> > > > name to find it in the search results, right click on it with Orca's mouse key shortcuts, then press RETURN 
> > > > on add to favorites. If you want to directly access the all apps screen of the activities overview, press 
> > > > WINDOWS(SUPER)+A and navigate as above.
> > > >
> > > > To access the Gnome main menu, cycle to the top bar with CTRL+ALT+TAB. Then use the arrow keys to navigate 
> > > > the menu system. In the system menu, many items such as your account name, wifi/network, and vpn are 
> > > > expandable/collapsible menu items. The desktop itself is not a list of icons, but a list of open windows and 
> > > > workspaces. I rather use Mate because it resembles a typical desktop environment.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > > On 1/10/19 12:17 PM, Tim via orca-list wrote:
> > > > > Hello, so I've installed the Gnome desktop environment on Debian, originally I was using mate, but I'm having 
> > > > > a bit of a conflict I guess you could call it. The only issue I've seen with gnome, is the activities 
> > > > > overview is inaccessible, unless you actually start typing and search for what you want, the menus that I 
> > > > > gather don't speak with Orca. The reason I chose it over mate, was mates very inconsistent panels, there have 
> > > > > been times on certain machines where only the bottom panel was shown, and that was well inaccessible at best, 
> > > > > other times the bottom and the top panel show, and work correctly most the time. I'm wondering, using gnome, 
> > > > > is there a way to make the activities overview and such accessible? Since obviously you can't get to the 
> > > > > desktop environment with Control Alt tab or control tab, it's a bit different I might add. Just some 
> > > > > observations I've noticed. This is of course using Debian 9.
> > > > > --
> > > > > Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
> > > > >
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