Since Orca is for the visually impaired, have you asked a blind person to test out gnome3?
Just a simple yes or no and not an explanation. I work with the Vinux project and would like to pass this information to them. On 4/21/11, Frederic Peters <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Joanmarie, > >> Looking at the 2.91 External Dependencies list [1], I see neither Speech >> Dispatcher nor OpenTTS. OpenTTS got approved for the prior cycle. [2] >> But they've since re-merged (unforked?) with Speech Dispatcher. So.... >> Do I need to propose Speech Dispatcher as an external dependency needed >> by Orca, or can I assume that because OpenTTS got blessed, Speech >> Dispatcher inherits that blessing and simply needs to be added to future >> lists of dependencies? >> >> Similarly, Orca has always depended upon BRLTTY [3] for refreshable >> braille. Thus I was surprised to discover that BRLTTY was not listed as >> a dependency. Distros seem to know to include it, but should BRLTTY be >> something officially made an external dependency of GNOME? >> >> Finally, if the answer to my question about BRLTTY is "Yes, it should be >> proposed/considered" by the Release Team, then I'd like to toss out one >> more for consideration: Liblouis. [4] Liblouis provides Orca users with >> the braille translation tables needed for contracted/"grade 2" braille. > > We are moving away of the idea of approving/rejecting individual > modules and considering the features we want in GNOME. In that > direction we'd say that whatever is needed for Orca to do its work > is ok. Of course this calls for some common sense, to keep some > coherence in our stack, but in the specific case of Orca we are not > adding liblouis to our development platform, it just happens to be a > library that is used to provide Orca users an important feature. > > But we want to have some guidelines, they are still to be discussed, > but the current proposal for modules developed outside of GNOME, and > with no consideration for our schedule, to require modules to depend > on released versions only. > > Does this answer your question clearly enough? > > > Fred > _______________________________________________ > desktop-devel-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list > _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
