Hi, Labrador. I've enjoyed reading your posts. Anyway, as an old (I'm 45) software developer myself, I wish anything I shipped where half as stable as Ubuntu. It's damed hard to build the QA suite, and testing's a bitch. I'm sure the developer in charge of this decision thought:
A) Switching to PulseAudio wouldn't break important functionality like Orca B) Any bugs that cause problems could be quickly handled. Unfortunately, we developers are often wrong, as in this case. Luke has already posted that it's high priority for him to track down the performance problems between speech-dispatcher and PulseAudio. At this point, we should just hope that Luke succeeds and that in the future Canonical tests Orca performance before making major sound system changes. Anyway, this is hardly the only problem in Karmic, and hardly the only remaining issue in Linux. My wife came to me today, because she couldn't figure out how to install Adobe Air on Ubuntu. She had downloaded some installer ending in '.bin', and was double-clicking it, saying, "It wont start! It wont start!" Linux is not yet for the masses, though I hope Ubuntu eventually gets there. In the meantime, it's the most awesome system for programmers and hackers ever conceived, and has it's use in business, too. Bill -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
