[orca-list] any review for Orca with Ubuntu precise beta 2

Krishnakant Mane krmane at gmail.com
Sat Mar 31 05:08:47 UTC 2012


Hi Thomas,
I have a little confusion when talking about Gnome3.
I wish to know if we set the default to Gnome3, do we get the gnome 
shell or the old time menu of application, places and system like in Gnome2?
What is exactly Gnome classic?
Happy hacking.
Krishnakant.

On 31/03/12 00:38, Thomas Ward wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Well, I think the accessibility issues in beta 2 are temporary. As 
> long as we file bugs with launchpad and let them know what has 
> happened they should be able to correct the problem as access was 
> working with beta 1 fairly well. Assuming they fix said bugs I'll 
> probably switch to Unity 2D as the access we had a few days ago was 
> acceptable if not exceptional.
>
> Even if they don't fix Unity 2D its not the end of the world. Gnome 3 
> is working decently and it is a fairly simple matter to install and 
> configure Gnome for Ubuntu 12.04. Just set your default desktop to 
> gnome-classic and you are in business.
>
> Cheers!
>
> On 3/30/2012 11:38 AM, Krishnakant Mane wrote:
>> This is very serious and I think Canonical is really letting us down.
>> It seems they are not as serious about accessibility as they used to be.
>> I won't download the beta2 in this case.
>> Actually I am in some rural part of India and bandwidth is not good 
>> enough for downloading the ISO.
>> That's why I asked for the review and if this is what it comes to 
>> then I think I and many others will have to give up Ubuntu unless 
>> these crutial things are taken care of.
>> I guess many blind users had infact liked Unity2d and were prepared 
>> to shift.
>> But if accessibility is really broken to this extent then I wonder 
>> what to expect.
>> I have a daily build of Ubuntu 12.04 on a pen drive and it really 
>> works so well that I was hoping to use a very accessible desktop from 
>> this summer.
>> Hope this is taken care of soon before the release.
>> It gives me a feeling that this is a very trivial issue for the 
>> developers of Unity to solve, because it was all working perfectly 
>> just a few days back.
>> Happy hacking.
>> Krishnakant.
>
>




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