Fwd: Orca on XFCE, using Xubuntu 7.04 "Feisty Fawn"

[Willie Walker]

Hi Mírian:

The primary target platform for Orca is GNOME, which is integrated into
many different operating system distributions.  The Orca team is small
and is unable to do testing/integration coverage of all operating system
distributions out there.  Instead, we primarily use two platforms:
Ubuntu and Open Solaris.  

Orca is a community project, however, and we encourage others to help us
with testing and using Orca on all sorts of platforms.  As you gain
experience with XFCE, it would be great if you could include your notes
off the following page: http://live.gnome.org/Orca/DownloadInstall.

Will
(Orca Project Lead)

On Mon, 2007-08-13 at 08:42 -0300, Mírian Bruckschen wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I sent the message below to orca-list, but perhaps here is the right
> place to post it. And, if Orca won't run in XFCE right now, are there
> any plans for make it work, or is it really unfeasible?
> 
> Thank you very much for any thoughts,
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Mírian Bruckschen
> Date: Aug 8, 2007 8:39 PM
> Subject: Orca on XFCE, using Xubuntu 7.04 "Feisty Fawn"
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm using XFCE 4.4.0 on Xubuntu 7.04 "Feisty Fawn", and trying to use
> Orca screen reader with them. I'm working on a project with children
> with visual and learning disabilities, and XFCE seemed to us more
> feasible than GNOME due to computational resources issues.
> 
> I have a few questions, guess it's the right list to post them. :)
> Is there anybody there using XFCE with Orca? How well does it work?
> I'm currently using Orca's latest version (from SVN, just got it
> yesterday) with eSpeak pt voice, and even though my Firefox' (still
> 2.0) window titles are correctly spoken, the XFCE menu options aren't.
> Also, Orca's screen and messages aren't read. Is there any
> configuration I'm missing, or this is known not to work under XFCE?
> 
> We won't be using Firefox right now in this project, so I didn't
> bother to install version 3.0 yet, but the menu options and a few GTK
> applications (yet to be developed) are expected to work. Does anybody
> have any ideas on what I'm doing wrong, or what can I do to make it
> work?
> 
> Thanks for your attention,
> 
> --
> Mírian Bruckschen
> 
> 
> -- 
> Mírian Bruckschen
>