Re: how good will be the gnome shell edition of Ubuntu 13.04?
On 04/24/2013 05:46 PM, Krishnakant Mane wrote: Hello all, Hello, sorry, I'm arriving somewhat late. I wish to know if the Ubuntu 13.04 gnome edition is worth using for a complete daily desktop? As far as I can understand from the responses to my previous queries, many suggest that Unity is still as good as 12.04. But I understand that Gnome shell 3.6 is much more accessible than 3.4. Is this correct? Yes, GNOME Shell 3.6 is more accessible that 3.4. If yes, then how good would it be as compared to Unity 2d? Never compared with unity2d sorry. do we have some thing similar to heads up display? Can I access the top panel where wifi settings or other system related options can be accessed? Yes. As Luke mentioned (and it is a good point that I didn't take into account), wireless strength is not exposed. But you can access the panel, and looking for available wifis. The problem about knowing which one is the current selected was also fixed. Is the menu bar totally accessible? AFAIK yes. Any other advantage or prominent improvements over Gnome shell 3.4? Most of the UI was reviewed in order to check missing names and roles. GNOME Shell 3.4 was good enough to do some tests with orca in order to improve it. GNOME Shell 3.6 was the first usable version by orca users, imho. Right now, the only missing spots that I can remember right now (some of them already mentioned) are: * Wifi strengh, mentioned on this thread (I will create a bug about this shortly) * Laptop battery level (althought fwiw, it reads the remaining amount of time) bug#684464 * Volume level on the volume slider bug#648623 BR -- Alejandro Piñeiro Iglesias -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
Re: how good will be the gnome shell edition of Ubuntu 13.04?
On 04/26/2013 07:55 PM, Piñeiro wrote: * Wifi strengh, mentioned on this thread (I will create a bug about this shortly) Done: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=698984 BR -- Alejandro Piñeiro Iglesias -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
Re: how good will be the gnome shell edition of Ubuntu 13.04?
That seems fairly good enough. I would think that 3.8 has more improvemnets, but don't know really how to set it up on Ubuntu 13.04. Happy hacking. krishnakant. On 04/26/2013 11:25 PM, Piñeiro wrote: On 04/24/2013 05:46 PM, Krishnakant Mane wrote: Hello all, Hello, sorry, I'm arriving somewhat late. I wish to know if the Ubuntu 13.04 gnome edition is worth using for a complete daily desktop? As far as I can understand from the responses to my previous queries, many suggest that Unity is still as good as 12.04. But I understand that Gnome shell 3.6 is much more accessible than 3.4. Is this correct? Yes, GNOME Shell 3.6 is more accessible that 3.4. If yes, then how good would it be as compared to Unity 2d? Never compared with unity2d sorry. do we have some thing similar to heads up display? Can I access the top panel where wifi settings or other system related options can be accessed? Yes. As Luke mentioned (and it is a good point that I didn't take into account), wireless strength is not exposed. But you can access the panel, and looking for available wifis. The problem about knowing which one is the current selected was also fixed. Is the menu bar totally accessible? AFAIK yes. Any other advantage or prominent improvements over Gnome shell 3.4? Most of the UI was reviewed in order to check missing names and roles. GNOME Shell 3.4 was good enough to do some tests with orca in order to improve it. GNOME Shell 3.6 was the first usable version by orca users, imho. Right now, the only missing spots that I can remember right now (some of them already mentioned) are: * Wifi strengh, mentioned on this thread (I will create a bug about this shortly) * Laptop battery level (althought fwiw, it reads the remaining amount of time) bug#684464 * Volume level on the volume slider bug#648623 BR -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
