ubuntu 2012.04 issues

[Krishnakant Mane]

To get all apps, there is the application button in the same row of the 
home icon.
I get all the apps in the installed applications list.
Note that it is a tiled view and you will have to use all the arrow keys.
Happy hacking.
Krishnakant.

On 02/04/12 17:42, Peter Vágner wrote:
> Hello,
> This is Acer ao bw150 netbook. It has 1 GB of ram and an onboard intel 
> based graphic chip.
> It can even run unity-3d so I really don't knowwhether relly hardware 
> is the issue.
>
> Should I post free output or something else to help narrowing it?
>
> Besides ubuntu I usually run Windows XP on this machine.
>
> Greetings
>
> Peter
>
>
> On 2.4.2012 13:36, Andy B.  wrote:
>> The first thing, what are the specs on this netbook? I have been 
>> installing
>> daily builds ever since Feburary, and had never came across this 
>> problem.
>> The only one I have at this point is the loss of shortcuts from the 
>> gnome
>> settings center. Sounds like your video card, or memory issues might be
>> causing the problem. I installed the 03/27 build and never had those
>> problems.
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: ubuntu-accessibility-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com
>> [mailto:ubuntu-accessibility-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of 
>> Peter
>> Vágner
>> Sent: Monday, April 02, 2012 6:17 AM
>> To: ubuntu-accessibility at lists.ubuntu.com
>> Subject: ubuntu 2012.04 issues
>>
>> Hello,
>> Several days ago I've installed ubuntu 2012.04 to my usb drive for 
>> testing.
>> I will go throught some issues I'm having. If you like you can take 
>> this as
>> a small review. I'm sorry I won't go to much detail while talking about
>> stuff which already works verry well. That's the nature of many people.
>> People start talking when they need help or when they dislike something.
>> I must say I like the upcoming release of ubuntu because I can 
>> already see a
>> lot of progress. For example I can use thunderbird with many more 
>> messages
>> in a single folder than I was able to previously. Thunderbird startup 
>> takes
>> a bit longer as discussed earlier on this and on the orca-list but it's
>> verry usable.
>> The same goes about the menus. Many people argue that gnome 2 with 
>> its main
>> menu structure is better accessible. Maybe access to the aplication 
>> icons is
>> better with classic gnome hower I find access to the items such as 
>> batery
>> indicator, network indicator, chat / messaging indicator, volume 
>> indicator
>> and others more accessible with unity-2d than it used to be with classic
>> gnome. It's now perfectly integrated into the menu.
>> The only thing I am unable to do with unity-2d is that I am unable to 
>> see
>> the list of all installed applications. I can see applications on the
>> launcher I can also press the super key alone and do a search but I 
>> can't
>> browse for an app. I am sure this can be done somehow.
>>
>> I'm quite impressed how it works but here are some issues and 
>> inconstencies
>> I have came accross and would like to get your feetback on.
>> - My netbook is a bit old and doesn't have a lot of power. It's still 
>> able
>> to run ubuntu and be usable. At times when doing some inthensive 
>> operations
>> e.g. loading a huge webpage in Firefox or updating parts of the page
>> dynamically the system is getting a bit sluggish. I know this is fine
>> however sometimes I don't know whether it's still doing its job or it 
>> has
>> frozen. Perhaps I'm just paranoid and would like to get the progress 
>> each
>> time it is doing something. In such case when the system is bussy and 
>> I'll
>> press some key bindings most frequently orcas flat review commands 
>> the orcas
>> ability to react to keypresses breaks. For example I can navigate 
>> around the
>> desktop using the keyboard but I am unable to press ctrl key to pause 
>> the
>> speech. I need to wait when the voice is done speaking and then do 
>> the other
>> action because interupting speech no longer works while doing key 
>> presses.
>> The cure to this is restarting orca. I can navigate to the orca main 
>> window,
>> find the quit button and press it using a spacebar. Orca then quits 
>> andI am
>> able to start it again by pressing alt+f2 and typing orca followed by 
>> the
>> enter key press. When Orca is restarted its ability to react to 
>> keypresses
>> is back to normal.
>> When orca is back to normal I am usually getting a crash reporter saying
>> that ubuntu had an internal problem. I've been able to use standard
>> navigation features to dismiss the crash reporter. It then opened 
>> launchpad
>> with new bug form. Sometimes it's the bug about unity I've also seen 
>> a bug
>> related to dbus once. At this point Firefox is working well however I am
>> afraid orca doesn't use the proper scripts because I can't navigate 
>> thepage
>> using quick navigation commands and also I am unable to use cursor 
>> keysfor
>> reading. Similar bugs have already been filled so I was not able to 
>> properly
>> read bug descriptions and comments in this state and I did not 
>> reportedthe
>> issue at the bugtracker.
>> Another thing I can notice in such a state is that when pressing 
>> alt+tab I
>> am getting no speech output.
>> While trying to log out or restart the computers using the menu I 
>> land on
>> the desktop, press alt+f10 to bring up the menu and while arrowing in 
>> the
>> menu I can see it is no longer speaking as I am moving over the menu 
>> items.
>> The only way to get back to normal where alt+tab and menus work is to 
>> go to
>> the terminal and restart the pc using the shutdown command.
>> This is happenning for me quite frequently. I would be pleased if you 
>> might
>> be able to look into this or possible give me some hints on how to 
>> proceed
>> to diagnose it further.
>> I would be gratefull for possible workarounds as well.e.g. how to 
>> prevent
>> orca loosing its ability to react to keypresses or how to recover 
>> from this
>> without restarting the whole machine.
>>
>> - On a different note I've read some exciting emails on this and also 
>> on the
>> orca-list recently. Ubuntu 2012.04 is supposed to have ability to launch
>> orca and get speech output on the login screen. While I was 
>> installing daily
>> live from 22nd of march, I've chosen to log me in automatically 
>> during the
>> install. So now while my PC is booting I am logged in automatically. 
>> After
>> I'm done testing and I'll remain satisfied I would like to install to 
>> the
>> hdd and add multiple users so other familly members can login as well.
>> I've tried to test this by going to the devices menu and activating 
>> theitem
>> saying logout. I've got a confirmation dialog where I've presset logout
>> button. After this I've waited a bit and while I did not get any audible
>> output I've tried pressing ctrl+s . Again I've got no audible output. 
>> Then
>> I've tried tabbing around slowly pressing ctrl+s after each tab key 
>> press
>> hoping I'll manage to get accessible login screen but I have never
>> succeeded. I had to reboot the machine in order to get to log back in.
>>
>> - Now the development really progresses in huge steps so I'm updating my
>> installed copy quite frequently sometimes even twice a day because
>> occassionally apport has problems subbmitting crashes when I'm 
>> running old
>> versions of some packages. Can I expect getting the great features 
>> appearing
>> in the latest daily images after updating using either the update 
>> manager or
>> apt-get in the console?
>> I am asking because login screen access, ability to use HUD and possible
>> other fixes were only been introduced recently and I don't seem to be 
>> able
>> to test them on my installed system.
>>
>> - The last issue which bugs me this time is how do I check whether a 
>> bugfix
>> is going to be released or not. By reading some interesting 
>> discussionson
>> empathy in the orca-list I think Joanie has fixed string mapping so 
>> empathy
>> should behave properly with orca and also empathy developers fixed a 
>> crash
>> preventing display of empathy preferences window when orca is 
>> running. Can I
>> see info about release status somewhere in the bugtracker or do I 
>> just need
>> to ask relevant contributors to push the updates into ubuntu or how 
>> does it
>> work please?
>>
>> Thanks verry much if you are reading this last paragraph, I know this 
>> is a
>> long email. Thanks to everyone making progress, I'm really excited, I've
>> even contacted our local gnome translators in order to try 
>> translating orca
>> and related packages to slovak.
>>
>>
>> Greetings
>>
>> Peter
>>
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