I fully agree with Ignasi. I have two perspectives on this as a blind user and as a developer.
As a user (newbie) all was said before - configuration out of the box will save a lot of hassle letting people learn or use the system straight out of the box rather than being involved in lots of unnecessary preparations, I have the patience and perhaps some skill to persevere others will give up - my interest in Ubuntu is for the masses of typical users. As a developer who is considering porting free software for the blind community into Ubuntu I was horrified when I discovered how much a newbie needs to do to get the system to work properly; it is all there because of effort of so many people (thank you) but not yet integrated. I don't mind giving support for my software but just don't have the time or wish to support problems of just getting the speech to work properly. In my case unless speech-dispatcher is ready to go (perhaps with a single flag) I will be just wasting my time. If the Main distribution will do that in the future well and good but my guess is that it will take (if at all) a long time (I have not seen much participation in this list from the Ubuntu team either - what a difference from the Orca mailing list). So Tony your Vibuntu project has all my support and if sometimes I get a message from you or others I don't like to read pressing the Delete key is not too much of an effort. Keep up the good work. Regards Isaac -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Justin Harford Sent: 18 December 2008 15:37 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [orca-list] Run Vibuntu on USB with persistant storage! I agree with Ignasi Cambra's comment. I am only subscribed to the ubuntu accessibility list with the purpose of keeping up with linux development without getting all the extra email. Regards Justin Harford -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
