Re: Accessibility as a reason to switch to XFCE?

2013-11-09 Thread Halim Sahin
Hi all, In my point of view debian should really change it's default desktop to xfce because of the systemd requirement of gnome. I am not happy with current situation but debian support other os's as well and systemd is only available for Linux. At this time I.ll whant to say thx to all people

Re: Accessibility as a reason to switch to XFCE?

2013-11-09 Thread MENGUAL Jean-Philippe
Hi, From the experience of Sonar, mentioned by Alejandro, it's possible to make a DE accessible from LXDE. But XFCE seems to stay a good testing project hard to handle for end-user. Best regards, Le 09/11/2013 14:15, Halim Sahin a écrit : Hi all, In my point of view debian should really

Re: Accessibility as a reason to switch to XFCE?

2013-11-06 Thread Mario Lang
Piñeiro apinhe...@igalia.com writes: Taking into account that the previous default desktop was GNOME (so GNOME Shell), this seems to suggest that GNOME accessibility support is broken. Probably some people think that because they are testing the accessibility support with the current Debian

Accessibility as a reason to switch to XFCE?

2013-11-05 Thread Piñeiro
Hi everybody, I'm Alejandro Piñeiro, maintainer of ATK (accessibility toolkit), implementor of the ATK support for Clutter/GNOME-shell, and one of the coordinators of GNOME Accessibility team. Some people pointed out a recent commit in Debian [1] and asked me some questions. As probably it is

Re: Accessibility as a reason to switch to XFCE?

2013-11-05 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi, and thanks for your input. Piñeiro apinhe...@igalia.com (2013-11-05): So, there may be reasons for Debian to switch to XFCE. But IMHO, accessibility is not one of them. Yes, initial a11y support in Gnome 3.x wasn't ideal, but thanks to Emilio (if I remember correctly) we got some improved

Re: Accessibility as a reason to switch to XFCE?

2013-11-05 Thread Joanmarie Diggs
On 11/05/2013 12:48 PM, Cyril Brulebois wrote: I think the point behind accessibility's being mentioned was to make sure the default desktop is accessible. As the Orca maintainer, I really appreciate that. :) Similarly, I really appreciate the work done by the XFCE guys. They have been great

RE: [orca-list] Accessibility as a reason to switch to XFCE? (fwd)

2013-11-05 Thread Jude DaShiell
--- jude jdash...@shellworld.net Avoid the Gates Of Hell, use Linux! -- Forwarded message -- Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2013 18:16:39 From: Alex Midence alex.mide...@gmail.com To: 'Jude DaShiell'