Hello, list,
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I see a lot of talk about speech on this mailling list, but almost nothing about screen magnification. I recently installed Edgy Knot 2 and I see Gnopernicus has been replaced by Orca. But the magnifier doesn't seem to work under Orca (which is pretty flaky itself). I reported a problem with memory usage in gnome-mag on this mailing list and on the GNOME accessibility mailing list. The maintainer doesn't seem to have time to fix this and I completely understand him. The xmcm project doesn't seem to make any progress - either that or they don't make announcements.
I don't blame the devolepers that are working voluntarily in the free software community, but I can't help being disappointed by the fact that companies like IBM, Sun, Novell, Red Hat, Mandriva, Linspire and Canonical can't hire a few programmers to develop a decent, reliable, easy-to-use and light screen magnifier. I love to bash Microsoft, but they have a good magnifier since Windows 98.
</rant>
Thanks for bearing with this rant,
Aurelian Radu
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