Desktops other than gnome

[Alex Midence]

Hi, all,

Based on all the trouble that has been going on with gnome and unity
and so forth and accessibility, I think that it is a very very good
idea for everyone to start exploring other desktops in case one ever
goes completely to pot.  In recent weeks, I have experimented with Ice
WM, Sawfish  and Fluxbox.  Of them all, Ice WM worked sort of but only
as a window manager in Gnome.  I never did get Fluxbox to work with
Orca and the same goes for Sawfish.  Has anyone had any success using
any other desktop other than Gnome successfully with Orca?  I've heard
very promising things about XFCE and LXDE but I'm not sure what I
would need to do to try these out since I hear you have to set certain
environment variables in some of the files that control them in order
for Orca to work.  Has anyone done this successfully?  I guess, with
Ubuntu, there is Xubuntu and Kubuntu.  I may be in a position to find
out for myself how KDE is coming along but the others are a mystery to
me.

Thanks.

Alex M