audacity and speakup?

[Janina Sajka]

I don't follow your reasoning, Karen. What is a "customer" in the context of software which costs nothing? And,  what's the evidence that sighted folk are clammoring for CLI tools? 

Karen Lewellen writes:
> again,
> considering the number of sighted radio and studio professionals,
> who re both fed up with Microsoft problems, and want
> a command line based editor, i would give them customers, more than my
> thanks.
> Often one can forget that things which
> can make life easy for those who are challenged visually,
>  make it easy for those who are not as well.
> Karen
> 
> On Mon, 5 Apr 2004, Janina Sajka wrote:
> 
> > I guess I didn't make myself clear. The "they" that generally needs to take on such assignments is the "they" who want the feature. Please recognize that they who wrote the application already have the interface they need. So, even if you can talk them into working for you for free--and this would be a very big job--you'd best think about what you'll give in return. Your gratitude is likely not enough.
> >
> > Karen Lewellen writes:
> > > By they, I mean those who
> > > took it upon themselves to create and update this
> > > program
> > > i am neither a member of the project, nor a computer programmer,
> > > I mean no disrespect, nor am i fishing.
> > > I can however write to those listed
> > > as contacts for this arm of the project and make inquiries.
> > >
> > >
> > > On Sun, 4 Apr 2004, Janina Sajka wrote:
> > >
> > > > Methinks you're out fisshing. Who do you mean by "they?" This is an open source project. You want a different feature--here's the source, go build it.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Karen Lewellen writes:
> > > > > ah, I think they would keep it up
> > > > > if they felt enough people would use it.
> > > > > besides, how often does it really need updating
> > > > > if set firmly in the first place?
> > > > > Karen
> > > > >
> > > > > On Sun, 4 Apr 2004, Krister Ekstrom wrote:
> > > > >
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> > > > > > On Sun, Apr 04, 2004 at 12:17:21PM -0400, Karen Lewellen wrote:
> > > > > > >  I would go one better,
> > > > > > > why not, given the willingness and creative flexibility
> > > > > > > of those in writing this program
> > > > > > > ask that an edition of audacity be written
> > > > > > > that is consol based?
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Yeah, preferably Ncurses based, but it almost has to be, or am i totally
> > > > > > out fishing here? The only problem i see with this approach is that a
> > > > > > great many folks use the Gui interface, and a consol-based app is less
> > > > > > likely to get updated.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > - --
> > > > > > /Krister
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> > > > > > _______________________________________________
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> > > > > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca
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> > > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > _______________________________________________
> > > > > Speakup mailing list
> > > > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca
> > > > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > >
> > > > 				Janina Sajka, Director
> > > > 				Technology Research and Development
> > > > 				Governmental Relations Group
> > > > 				American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)
> > > >
> > > > Email: janina at afb.net		Phone: (202) 408-8175
> > > >
> > > > _______________________________________________
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> > > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca
> > > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
> > > >
> > >
> > > _______________________________________________
> > > Speakup mailing list
> > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca
> > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
> >
> > --
> >
> > 				Janina Sajka, Director
> > 				Technology Research and Development
> > 				Governmental Relations Group
> > 				American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)
> >
> > Email: janina at afb.net		Phone: (202) 408-8175
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > Speakup mailing list
> > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca
> > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
> >
> 
> _______________________________________________
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				Janina Sajka, Director
				Technology Research and Development
				Governmental Relations Group
				American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)

Email: janina at afb.net		Phone: (202) 408-8175