Gnome, gnopernicus, and X-Windows questions

[Thomas D. Ward]

Hi. Well, I will preface my message by saying that the gnopernicus team is 
still several weeks away from anything looking like a stable beta release. 
There are many things to do yet.

The gui environment can be broken down into three basic parts. You have 
the X-Windows server. This contains vidio drivers, vidio resolution, and 
is the under lying part of the Windows environment. Then, you have a 
Window 
maniger such as sawfish. Then, you have a desktop, the part you actually 
work with such as Gnome and KDE.

It has been my experience that Gnome and KDE applications can be run with 
either desktop. However, KDE applicationss are not vary accessible because 
they are written in QT which has no screen reader hooks where Gnome 
applications written in gtk+ do or will soon have them.

  To work with Gnopernicus you will need to download the Gnome 2.0.2 
source, build it, and install it. Which is a huge under taking by itself.

Once that is done you will need to check out the Gnome speech server, 
gnopernicus screen reader, and gnome magnifyer, and build, and install 
them.

You will also require either Viavoice rtk rpm, or build and install the 
festival speech system.

Then, you need to change some environment variables here, modify a file 
there, and you might get it talking. As I said you can do things with it, 
but we are not discussing stable and working code yet.

I believe the gnopernicus home page is:

http://www.baum.ro/gnopernicus.html

Hth.