Slackware is dropping Gnome

[Laura Eaves]

Hi -- I actually disagree as there are many blind users of windows who use 
the MS Office apps heavily, by necessity, who would benefit greatly from 
gnome based versions of these apps -- or at least gnome versions that can 
process the same file formats so that the documents are portable.
Also, a lot has been done with blind access to UML diagrams and such used in 
OO programming, and it would be nice if these types of tools were available 
on linux/unix for used by a workplace with mixed blind and sighted 
employees.
Anyway before I get in too deeply, I have not yet tried gnome or 
gnopernicus.  And the culture of the speakup list is to go text instead of 
graphical, but since I spent so amny years resisting that awful monster 
windows from invading my space only to switch to jaws/window yes and windows 
when I lost my vision finally, I do think the work on gnome is a good thing, 
not to replace speakup but to have that in the works for handling new 
advances as they come out, even if the interface is graphical.
Off box...*smile*


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kenny Hitt" <kenny at hittsjunk.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Saturday, April 02, 2005 9:15 AM
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.
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> 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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