Suggestion: Speakup desktop guide

[Zachary Kline]

Hello,
I am curious, admittedly, what you use for graphical environments?  Is it 
Orca?  Gnome?  Something else?
Thanks,
Zack.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Alex Snow" <alex_snow at gmx.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2007 7:35 PM
Subject: Re: Suggestion: Speakup desktop guide


>A graphical environment does have its advantages...I find the console
> web browsers inadiquit for lots of things (full javascript support,
> flash, adn java applets come to mind), and certain file management
> tasks are far easier in a guy then cli, such as copying files from a
> directory to somewhere else, where the multiple files to be copied are
> not contiguous.
> On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 11:43:05PM -0300, Cleverson
> wrote:
>> Hi Zack,
>>
>> In fact, I don't know if the term "desktop" aplies to people who prefer
>> command line programs rather than graphical ones, but I really think 
>> there
>> is no reason to use a graphical environment, since text mode is faster 
>> and I
>> think there are console programs for any task.
>>
>> For blind users, perhaps the only difference is that in text mode you 
>> should
>> memorize some command strings instead of key strokes. Nothing's hard, to 
>> me
>> at least...
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Cleverson
>>
>> "Be realistic; ask for the impossible."
>>
>>
>>
>> _______________________________________________________
>> Yahoo! Mail - Sempre a melhor op??o para voc?!
>> Experimente j? e veja as novidades.
>> http://br.yahoo.com/mailbeta/tudonovo/
>>
>>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Speakup mailing list
>> Speakup at braille.uwo.ca
>> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
>
> -- 
> I don't know why, but first C programs tend to look a lot worse than
> first programs in any other language (maybe except for fortran, but then
> I suspect all fortran programs look like `firsts')
> -- Olaf Kirch
>
> _______________________________________________
> Speakup mailing list
> Speakup at braille.uwo.ca
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
>