Re: UMAI 0.4: Welcome on Ubuntu Mate 23.04

2023-09-17 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
Hello, yes, pipx is the way recommended by Debian and its forks, including UM. However, in order for an application to be installable by pipx, it first needs to be packaged for it, what's unfortunately not the case with ocrdesktop. I wonder whether it actually could be done, since ocrdesktop

Re: UMAI 0.4: Welcome on Ubuntu Mate 23.04

2023-09-17 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
Hello, it depends on the specific script part. Considering the individual operations as listed in the project's readme, 1 is UM specific, 2 could technically be adapted to work on other platforms, but I would need to implement a libatspi version check to determine which version of orca to

Re: UMAI 0.4: Welcome on Ubuntu Mate 23.04

2023-09-17 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
pipx is available in some distros and once pipx gets installed one package installed with pipx becomes available globally that is jrnl. At least that's what happened on debian bookworm. -- Jude "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in

Re: UMAI 0.4: Welcome on Ubuntu Mate 23.04

2023-09-17 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
Could it work on other Debian-based distros like Linux mint? On 9/17/2023 2:44 AM, Linux for blind general discussion wrote: Hello everyone, as the title suggests, today I released a new version of UMAI, the Ubuntu Mate Accessibility Improver utility. I felt this step to be increasingly more

development of linux phones for the visually impaired

2023-09-17 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
hi My idea would be to install the sxmo user interface on pinephone and use it with orca or fenrir, sxmo is based on Sway andthe menus are built with dmenu or bemenu, which apparently doesn't work on orca, I was thinking about installing the i3 window manager for e.g. postmarketOS or mobian