Fw: XFCE desktop

josh jkenn337 at gmail.com
Fri Feb 8 03:43:57 GMT 2008


Hi,
Read the following email I got...so does orca now work with XFCE?

Josh

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Thomas Ward" <tward at usagames.us>
To: "josh" <jkenn337 at gmail.com>
Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2008 9:00 PM
Subject: Re: XFCE desktop


> Hi,
> Actually, I completely forgot about XFCE in my previous message. Yes, XFCE 
> is also one of the desktops that is adding screen reader and accessibility 
> support. I believe XFCE 4.4 uses the same gtk2 accessibility mottle that 
> Gnome uses. I haven't tried it myself, but orca should work with XFCE 4.4 
> and later. I'll have to install it and try it sometime.
> FYI, if you want to install XFCE under Ubuntu you can run apt-get like 
> this
> sudo apt-get install xubuntu-desktop
> in gnome-terminal and it will install XFCE for you. Then, all you have to 
> do is change the session manager to login using XFCE instead of gnome.
> If you want to install the KDE 4.0 desktop when it is released you can do 
> something like
> sudo apt-get install kubuntu-desktop
> and it will install the latest version of the KDE desktop Ubuntu has on 
> there servers.
> Just for your information Ubuntu has two versions besides the main Ubuntu 
> disk called Kubuntu and Xubuntu. Kubuntu comes with KDE instead of Gnome, 
> and Xubuntu comes with XFCE instead of Gnome.
> Cool huh?
>
> josh wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Will the XFCE desktop ever be accessible?
>> email: jkenn337 at gmail.com
>> skype: jkenn337
>> msn: kenn6498ku at hotmail.com
>>
>>
> 




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