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

[Krishnakant Mane]

Hi Dave,
On 31/03/12 10:48, Dave Hunt wrote:
> When ou use Gnome classic, you get the old-fashioned menus, like 
> 'places', 'accessories', 'internet', 'sound and media', etc.  a press 
> of 'super+d' will minimize all apps, and put your on the desktop, 
> which is just another folder under Gnome 3.  For setting system 
> preferences, you'll still use the gnome-control-center app; it's 
> 'system settings' in Trisquel 5.5.  I like having all these settings 
> grouped in this way.  Typing a filter string will show you only the 
> icons with matching names.
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So is this an enhancement in addition to the old menus?

Typing a filter string is very much like the Unity's launcher I guess?  
And if so this means we have the best of all approaches.
Happy hacking.
Krishnakant.



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> On Sat, 31 Mar 2012, Krishnakant Mane wrote:
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>> 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.
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>> On 31/03/12 00:38, Thomas Ward wrote:
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>>> Hi,
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>>> 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.
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>>> 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.
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>>> Cheers!
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>>> 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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