Hi Dave, Happy to know that you got a better experience with Unity this time. With cut copy paste, I have one suggestion. Why can't we have orca responding "cut to clipboard or copy to clipboard " when we cut or copy and "pasted from clipboard " when we paist it.
Happy hacking. Krishnakant. On 06/04/2012, Dave Hunt <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I did some playing with a flash drive installation of Ubuntu 12.04, as > released on 05-April, and had the best Unity-2d session yet, though did > manage to crash the shell 3 times. With each shell crash, I could have > the shell automatically relaunch. All crashes are reported in launchpad. > > When my system starts, it automatically logs in as the user Ubuntu. Orca > is supposed to start on login, but this does not seem to happen, though, > perhaps, it is attempted? I always have to start Orca manually, after > waiting for the complete desktop to be present. When Orca is fully > running, I discover that the shell had crashed, and have the bug report > form available, with the 'close' and 'relaunch' buttons. When I hit > 'relaunch, I can use the pre-loaded browser to fill the form, and > continue. From this point, the shell restarts, and appears to run as > expected. That is, I have access to the menus at all times, The dash and > launcher seem to keep wirking. I even added some items to the launcher, > and their shortcuts persist. I tried to use the heads-up display to find > something on my hard drive, which is mounted in the '/media' directory, > (confirmed by directory listing in terminal). I believe a single press > and release of the 'alt' key is how one is supposed to do this? It > resulted in a Unity shell crash, again, filed, using aport, and launchpad. > The Unity shell relaunched and was usable, again, until I shut the system > down normally. > > My experience with browsing attempts in the hud does lead me to another > question. In my installed Trisquel system, I have a 'network' place, that > shows me the other machines on my local network, and lets me login, using > sftp. I get a nice Nautilus display of the directories I'm allowed to > see, with cut, copy, paste, and so on, options, as if these sites were > local folders. I've never found a way to see these things in Unity, past > or present. Anyone know how to do this? > > I'm not sure whether I'm ready to turn this machine into a pangalin just > yet, but I'm feeling a lot better about Unity-2d than I did yesterday at > this time. A switch may be the easiest and best way to keep my > accessibility stack current. Trisquel's 6 months behind, though, solid. > Maybe I can run Classic Gnome, in 12.04, and have the best option? > > > Cheers, > > > > Dave > > > > > > > > -- > 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
