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

[Dave Hunt]

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.



HTH,



Dave





On Sat, 31 Mar 2012, Krishnakant Mane wrote:

> 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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