While I'm highly sympathetic to all sides of this issue, I will note that WINE isn't screen-reader-accessible in the way Orca + current CHIRP is. As of now, CHIRP is the only way I have of accessibly programming some radios under Linux.
I wish I had the time and energy to volunteer to help CHIRP and about a dozen other causes. But I do hope we can figure out a way to stop kicking this Python migration can down the road. In the meantime, we should probably actively encourage use of Flatpak/AppImages over, well, just about everything else. One single semi-official flatpak repo is going to be a whole lot less trouble than a variety of haphazardly-maintained PPAs, COPRs, Debian repos, AUR repos (unless the Arch folks just install it manually anyway... :) On 5/20/20 6:14 PM, Tom Consodine via chirp_users wrote: > Wrong. You don't know what WINE is. > > Tom ND5Y > > On 5/20/20 5:54 PM, Nigel A. Gunn G8IFF/W8IFF wrote: >> To do that, most will have to go purchase a copy of Windows. That's $150 >> down the drain. >> >> >>> On 20 May 2020 at 18:30 Tom Consodine via chirp_users >>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> >>> . >>> >>> Right now the only easy way to run CHIRP on Ubuntu 20.04 is installing >>> WINE and then using the Windows version of CHIRP. >>> >>> Tom ND5Y > _______________________________________________ > chirp_users mailing list > [email protected] > http://intrepid.danplanet.com/mailman/listinfo/chirp_users > This message was sent to Nolan Darilek at [email protected] > To unsubscribe, send an email to > [email protected] _______________________________________________ chirp_users mailing list [email protected] http://intrepid.danplanet.com/mailman/listinfo/chirp_users This message was sent to [email protected] at [email protected] To unsubscribe, send an email to [email protected]
