Slackware is dropping Gnome

[Chris Hofstader]

I've been doing a lot of research on open source musical tools (sequencers,
synthesizers, mixers, etc.), a number are available in a text-only
configuration but quite a few require gnome.  I have been thinking of
converting some of the gnome music tools that I want to use into self
voicing applications.  I can hear Peter Korn screaming that I should do it
properly and add the gnome accessibility API to these programs but, alas, no
matter how loud I yelled or hard I pounded the table, the gnome API has no
realistic sense of relationship between objects and, for programs as complex
as these, it is not sufficient to deliver the rich contextual information
required to use such tools.  Other parts of gnome will, however, be
necessary as I do not want to get into an entire rewrite of these apps
either.  So, I find value in gnome just because I don't like unresolved
externals.

I'm a firm believer in screen readers and avoiding self voicing, blind guy
ghetto, programs that segregate us from everyone else but, in this case, I'm
choosing expediency over philosophy.

 


-----Original Message-----
From: speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca]
On Behalf Of Kenny Hitt
Sent: Saturday, April 02, 2005 8:15 AM
To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
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:
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> 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 at pcdesk.net
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> And so it came to pass that on Fri, 1 Apr 2005, Adam Myrow said
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> >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.
> >
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