[ubuntu-uk] suck it and see

[Ian Pascoe]

Hi Mark

Sorry, should have made this a bit clearer - this challenge is only
available to those using GNOME as their desktop.  It isn't ported into KDE
as KDE doesn't use the same infrastructure as GNOME does.

However, my understanding is that there is a long term project to port into
KDE once they both use the same structure which should be from KDE 4
onwards.

Sorry for the vagueness on what the differences are but I know it's not a
simple one.

E

-----Original Message-----
From: ubuntu-uk-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com
[mailto:ubuntu-uk-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com]On Behalf Of Mark Jose
Sent: 21 June 2007 22:43
To: British Ubuntu Talk
Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] suck it and see


On Thursday 21 June 2007 20:27, Ian Pascoe wrote:

>
> In fact here's a challenge for you all to do on those rainy evenings.  Get
> Orca up and running - it's part of the Gnome desktop from 6.06 onwards -
> turn your monitors off, no cheating now, and have a go at doing some of
> your normal tasks to see what I mean.  The voices are fun to play with as
> well if you're running Fiesty.  And you may actually find it useful to
have
> the text to speech engine running as you write as it's a dam site easier
to
> spot spelling mistakes as you're using two different parts of the brain.
>

A most interesting mail Ian. To familiarise myself with the issues I decided
to take up the challenge of installing gnome-orca!
To slightly complicate matters, I use Kubuntu, but I managed to install the
program without any obvious problems.
Annoyingly, it has fallen at the first hurdle - attempting to launch either
orca or orca-setup results in errors being listed on the command line.
Although I am sure I can sort those for my own use, it would perhaps cause a
partially sighted user (or indeed a fully sighted, but new to Linux user) to
give up before they had started.
I will check if these issues have been flagged up to the project already
before I begin sorting them out.

Mark

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