Hi Luke, I'm now running lubuntu which is lxde based but also GTK2 compliant, I'm only a tester of things but would be happy to assist in anyway I can for testing this newer flavour with accessibility options.
Regards, Phill. On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 12:50 AM, Luke Yelavich <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Jun 06, 2010 at 02:07:10PM EST, Phillip Whiteside wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I read of things being done that are for gnome, I'm guessing that they > are > > gnome only? Does that mean that those running xfce, lxde, etc. as desktop > > environments can not use them without pulling in all of the gnome > libraries? > > I understand that the newer gtk standard is compatible across the > different > > flavours of desktop environments, without getting too technical, could > some > > one tell me what the differences are. > > What things are you referring to exactly? > > As to XFCE for example, since it uses GTK, and since the accessibility bits > are being abstracted away from GNOME as much as possible, XFCE should be > able to use the accessibility infrastructure. Parts of XFCE, at least when I > last tried, were accessible to Orca, but certainly not everything. It also > doesn't help that XFCE doesn't really have the right bits in place to start > accessbility infrastructure pieces properly. I have been meaning to help > them with that, but haven't got around to it. > > Also when I last tried, there were not any useful keyboard shortcuts ofor a > fair number of tasks. I should really grab the Xubuntu lucid disk and > install it into a VM and have another play. > > Luke > > -- > Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility >
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