Re: Ubuntu and a screenreader

2013-10-18 Thread Alan Bell
On 18/10/13 01:29, tapper wrote: hi what's going on with the new Ubuntu: can i as a blind computer user install it with speech. are you going to update the wiki or even do a blog post about it. i will be very happy if you can get back to me and let me no as win 8 is a pile! thanks Tapper

Re: [Desktop13.04-Topic] accessibility

2012-10-17 Thread Alan Bell
I would like the text cursor tracking zoom to be incorporated, there is code that works, it just needs to be incorporated properly https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/compiz/+bug/727290 https://code.launchpad.net/~gloob/compiz/texttracking I can understand dropping the themes, Unity

Re: virtualbox

2012-09-19 Thread Alan Bell
hello, yes I have had problems with 12.10 in virtualbox for sound, https://launchpad.net/bugs/1016969 it is possible to get to the pulse audio dialog and change the device to one of the two LFE devices, I can try it again later and provide the exact key sequence to do so. I didn't tag that

Re: Your recent patch of CompizConfig Settings Manager.

2012-02-18 Thread Alan Bell
Different approach. Stop depending on the largedesktop feature. https://code.launchpad.net/~alanbell/unity/removelargedesktopdependency/+merge/93687 This does not seem to cause me any problems, if you drop this dependency it doesn't remove unity when you swap between cube and wall. If you have

Re: It's time to jettison CCSM

2012-01-26 Thread Alan Bell
On 26/01/12 16:28, Jorge O. Castro wrote: With tools like MyUnity now in universe, and didrocks putting basic configuration in the control panel I'd like to propose the removal of compizconfig-settingsmanager. I don't mean stop telling people to use it or add a warning, I mean total removal

Re: It's time to jettison CCSM

2012-01-26 Thread Alan Bell
On 26/01/12 16:28, Jorge O. Castro wrote: - It's possible to accidentally uncheck the Unity plugin, breaking the user's desktop. Maybe make it a bit harder to do that, principally by removing the depends on largedesktop. The reason people uncheck unity by accident is because they want to turn

Re: It's time to jettison CCSM

2012-01-26 Thread Alan Bell
On 26/01/12 22:55, Jan Claeys wrote: Jorge O. Castro schreef op do 26-01-2012 om 11:28 [-0500]: MyUnity is a better user-facing tool anyway for those that want to play Based on the screenshots I found, the auto-generated UI of CCSM for the Unity plugin is actually better (more understandable

Re: It's time to jettison CCSM

2012-01-26 Thread Alan Bell
On 26/01/12 23:14, Alan Bell wrote: it is not keyboard navigable I tell a lie, it *is* keyboard navigable, you can tab off the controls on the first page and get focus on all the hidden controls on the other pages (that you can't see because you are still looking at the first page) and you

Re: PiTiVi in Ubuntu 11.10 and beyond

2011-05-25 Thread Alan Bell
Hi Jeff, here is a link to a recording of the session, hope that helps http://mirrors.tumbleweed.org.za/uds-o/2011-05-13-14-10-desktop-o-default-apps.ogg just used PiTiVi last night for the first time, it seemed pretty good to me. Alan. -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list