From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from ms-smtp-01-lbl.southeast.rr.com ([24.25.9.100] helo=ms-smtp-01-eri0.southeast.rr.com) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1DIGgw-0000cy-00 for ; Sun, 03 Apr 2005 21:47:50 -0400 Received: from geekspeak (cpe-024-074-098-208.carolina.res.rr.com [24.74.98.208]) by ms-smtp-01-eri0.southeast.rr.com (8.12.10/8.12.7) with SMTP id j341liLv009151 for ; Sun, 3 Apr 2005 21:47:47 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <013601c538b8$50c03980$6401a8c0@geekspeak> From: "Laura Eaves" To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." References: <20050402033428.GA27641@romuald.net.eu.org> <20050402131516.GA9263@blackbox> Date: Sun, 3 Apr 2005 21:47:52 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2180 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180 X-Virus-Scanned: Symantec AntiVirus Scan Engine Subject: Re: Slackware is dropping Gnome X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 04 Apr 2005 01:47:50 -0000 Hi -- I actually disagree as there are many blind users of windows who use the MS Office apps heavily, by necessity, who would benefit greatly from gnome based versions of these apps -- or at least gnome versions that can process the same file formats so that the documents are portable. Also, a lot has been done with blind access to UML diagrams and such used in OO programming, and it would be nice if these types of tools were available on linux/unix for used by a workplace with mixed blind and sighted employees. Anyway before I get in too deeply, I have not yet tried gnome or gnopernicus. And the culture of the speakup list is to go text instead of graphical, but since I spent so amny years resisting that awful monster windows from invading my space only to switch to jaws/window yes and windows when I lost my vision finally, I do think the work on gnome is a good thing, not to replace speakup but to have that in the works for handling new advances as they come out, even if the interface is graphical. Off box...*smile* ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kenny Hitt" To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Sent: Saturday, April 02, 2005 9:15 AM Subject: Re: Slackware is dropping Gnome Hi. Although the sighted community will be missing what seems to be a good desktop, I don't think the blind community is missing much by not having Gnome. Kenny On Fri, Apr 01, 2005 at 11:00:29PM -0700, Joseph C. Lininger wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Well, I maintain a mirror of slackware-current on my ftp server, and > gnome has in fact been removed. I don't think they're joking folks. > > Equal causes can produce very unequal effects. > Joseph C. Lininger > jbahm@pcdesk.net > Verification: 5eab38a77ac40416e075be8f50607ff7 > > And so it came to pass that on Fri, 1 Apr 2005, Adam Myrow said > > >On Fri, 1 Apr 2005, Gregory Nowak wrote: > > > >> Hmm, I suppose this could be an April fools joke, couldn't it? If it's > >> not, then they certainly picked an interesting date to announce this. > > > >Actually, it was buried in with several other things dated 3/26/05, so > >I'd > >say it's no joke. I guess when the next version of Slackware comes out, > >I > >will be trying to download one of those other Gnome packages. Well, I > >haven't gotten Gnopernicus to work in Slackware 10.1 anyway, but I > >haven't > >really put much effort into it. > > > > > >_______________________________________________ > >Speakup mailing list > >Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFCTjUDJ6dqn0mqPbARAt9qAJ9YPW2pYV3rHUYcyWCWCcr3zEoHqQCg8gM4 > BuJPmk+HUGixG9XFkMXZK5E= > =yVUL > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup@braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup