Slackware is dropping Gnome

[Ned]

Hi,
"... 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 ..."

Actually, I am looking for some. Can you mention some of them?

Many thanks!
Ned

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Laura Eaves" <leaves1 at carolina.rr.com>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Sunday, April 03, 2005 6:47 PM
Subject: Re: Slackware is dropping Gnome


> 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.
>>
>> 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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