xwindows

[David Poehlman]

Gena,  Thanks for this.  I agree totally.

----- Original Message -----
From: "'Georgina'" <gena at gena-j.net>
To: <speakup at 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
>
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>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Jim Ruby" <jruby at charter.net>
>To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
>Sent: Sunday, May 12, 2002 11:12 PM
>Subject: xwindows
>
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>> Do you think we will ever have access to the gui?
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>> 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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