From: David Poehlman <poehlman1@comcast.net>
To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca
Subject: Re: xwindows
Date: Tue, 14 May 2002 14:29:05 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <004f01c1fb75$3aa03d90$91e03244@DAVIDPOEHLMAN> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E177gl7-0000Oc-00@debian.linux>
Gena, Thanks for this. I agree totally.
----- Original Message -----
From: "'Georgina'" <gena@gena-j.net>
To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2002 2:10 PM
Subject: Re: xwindows
Hi
Sorry, but I mus disagree. You only have to listen to reviews on Main
Menu and here the number of keystrokes required to achieve a simple
task. Its a question of what you know and what you believe you know to
be fact.
If you count the number of keystrokes you actually use in MS Windows
you'd be suprised. When you become comfortable with a screen reader and
the operating system you believe it to be easy. Its a matter of
perception.
I read new mail with fewer keystrokes with nmh than I did with Outlook.
My fingers stay on the typewriter keys and I don't have to use nearly
impossible key combinations.
In Outlook I pressed escape, curser down, and enter. In nmh I use
curser down and enter. Big deal, I've saved one keypress per message
but as I receive over a hundred a day, its a significant amount.
The arguement that blind people need a graphical user interface is
totally illogical. The only reasoning is to normalise us all.
Gena
Blindness Advocacy and Self Help Online www.bashonline.org
>I agree with this. It takes far less typing and its generally just
quicker
>to get around and accomplish many typical tasks with a GUI or
object-based
>interface. I've got repetative strain injury from typing too much and
>playing guitar, so anything which saves typing is really necisary for
me.
>Linux is a much better system overall, so to have access to a GUI or
>object-based interface under Linux is going to be fantastique!! Look
for
>more about Gnome and Gnome accessibility as the summer progresses. You
can
>bet that I'll be one of the first to jump on this bandwaggon!!
>
> Rich Caloggero
> MIT Adaptive Tech. for Info. and Computing
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Jim Ruby" <jruby@charter.net>
>To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
>Sent: Sunday, May 12, 2002 11:12 PM
>Subject: xwindows
>
>
>> Do you think we will ever have access to the gui?
>>
>> I find that I can access things faster in windows then in Linux text
mode.
>I will admit that linux works much better then windows or the winxp.
>>
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How to get an accessible telephone Janina Sajka
` Alex Snow
` Janina Sajka
` 'Georgina'
` Toby Fisher
` Alex Snow
` xwindows Jim Ruby
` xwindows Saqib Shaikh
` xwindows Charles Crawford
` xwindows Janina Sajka
` xwindows jwantz
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` xwindows Charles Crawford
` xwindows Toby Fisher
` xwindows Janina Sajka
` xwindows Octavian Rasnita
` xwindows Cecil H. Whitley
` xwindows Ameer Armaly
` xwindows Charles Crawford
` xwindows Toby Fisher
` xwindows Steve Holmes
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` xwindows Charles Crawford
` xwindows Toby Fisher
` xwindows Janina Sajka
` xwindows Janina Sajka
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` xwindows Charles Crawford
` xwindows Will Smith
` xwindows Toby Fisher
` xwindows Will Smith
` xwindows David Poehlman
` xwindows Ann Parsons
` xwindows Will Smith
` xwindows charles crawford
` xwindows Ann Parsons
` xwindows 'Georgina'
` xwindows charles crawford
` xwindows Steve Holmes
` xwindows Erik Heil
` xwindows Toby Fisher
` xwindows Brian Borowski
` xwindows Jim Ruby
` xwindows Janina Sajka
` xwindows 'Georgina'
` xwindows Igor Gueths
` xwindows 'Georgina'
` xwindows Rich Caloggero
` xwindows Jim Ruby
` xwindows Janina Sajka
` xwindows Scott Howell
` xwindows 'Georgina'
` David Poehlman [this message]
` xwindows Cheryl Homiak
` xwindows jwantz
` xwindows Janina Sajka
` xwindows David Poehlman
` xwindows jwantz
` xwindows Janina Sajka
` xwindows Toby Fisher
` xwindows jwantz
` xwindows Janina Sajka
` xwindows Dave Hunt <
` xwindows Ann Parsons
` How to get an accessible telephone Scott Howell
` Janina Sajka
` Charles Hallenbeck
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