Speakup and phoebe

Alex Snow alex_snow at gmx.net
Fri Mar 28 20:07:27 EST 2003


I'd wait till the become a little more usable.  from what I've heard they
are quite early in development and not really usalbe quite yet.

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On Fri, 28 Mar 2003, Lorenzo Prince wrote:

> Well, there are screen readers for x-windows, and also specifically for
> gnome, but they are in early development and are not production quality at
> this point.  However, now that I am able to actually run x-windows, I
> would like to try some or all of these programs.
>
> Lorenzo
>
> E Pluribus Unix
>
> On Thu, 27 Mar 2003, Juan Hernandez wrote:
>
> > people can now use x-windows???
> >
> >
> >    How???
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Lorenzo Prince" <lorenzo at princenet.sytes.net>
> > To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> > Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2003 11:03 AM
> > Subject: Re: Speakup and phoebe
> >
> >
> > > So how do I get Gnome to work on my Slackware 9.0 system?  When I type
> > > 'gdm' which I thought was the command to start Gnome, it does nothing.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Lorenzo
> > >
> > > E Pluribus Unix
> > >
> > > On Thu, 27 Mar 2003, Adam Myrow wrote:
> > >
> > > > So, why did Redhat choose to drop Speakup from their next version?  It
> > > > sounds like maybe somebody didn't like the modified kernel.  So, they
> > > > should have done like Slackware and gave the user a choice of a
> > > > Speakup-enabled kernel or not.  BTW, Slackware 9.0 just came out and has
> > > > Gnome 2.2 with accessibility plug-ins, and still supports Speakup.  It
> > is
> > > > down to a boot disk and two root disks to install, but also has a third
> > > > option which is some sort of boot manager on a separate disk that will
> > > > supposedly boot a CDROM even on computers that otherwise can't boot one.
> > > > I don't know if this will speak or not, but it sure sounds interesting.
> > I
> > > > sure hope Redhat reconsiders dropping Speakup as it is a major step in
> > the
> > > > wrong direction.
> > > >
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