I think I will stay away from mate
sounds like it needs some serious work
On 4/8/2015 3:20 PM, Dave Hunt wrote:
This is a brief account of my experience with Ubuntu-Mate 15.04 Beta
2. If I were unfamiliar with Mate, and its accessibility quirks, I'd
have had a lot of trouble; things are not really intuitive. Review
below...
HTH,
Dave
When the live system booted, I got the sound of bongos. At this point,
I used 'ctrl+s' to toggle speech on. The introductory dialogue, with
"install Ubuntu" and "Try Ubuntu" options is fully accessible; I
tabbed to "try", and hit the space key. My system went into a
desktop; I only knew it was ready by the long absence of drive
activity; an introductory sound would be helpful, here. When I figured
that enough time had passed, I used 'alt+super+s' keys to toggle the
speech on; this is a nice feature, and familiar to those using GNOME
3. Orca came on, as expected, but nothing was focused. I just
happened to try 'ctrl+alt+d' and found that the desktop gets focus.
From here, I could set my screen reader preferences in the expected
way. Once I had Orca set up, I started exploring the menu system, by
entering with 'alt+f1' keys. I found the expected three-column menu
set on the top panel. I exited the menus and tried getting to the top
panel, with 'alt+ctrl+tab' and 'alt+ctrl+esc' keys, but could only get
to the bottom panel. Even with focus on the bottom, I found no way to
reach the top, where my wifi options are likely shown. I went back
into the menus, and found Preferences. In the 'look and feel' section,
I found a new item called Mate Tweak, which I started, with hopes of
messing with the interface. I found panels options, including Ubuntu
Mate, Ubuntu Mate with Mate Menu, and an interesting one-- Redmond.
Once I chose this option and left the tweak tool, I found I had a
single-panel layout, with a single column of menus, similar to the
layout you'd find on Trisquel 7. I had to use 'ctrl+alt+escape' to get
to the panels, though, even after binding 'ctrl+alt+tab' for switching
between desktop and panels. Anyway, once I got to the new bottom
panel, I could connect to my wifi as expected. Having unlocked this
monumental achievement, I launched a web browser, just to check
connectivity. Since all seemed well, I closed the browser, and hit the
'install' button on the desktop.
The installer is a typical session of Ubiquity, about which many of us
have written before; it hasn't changed much, in terms of
accessibility, since 14.04; I will mention, however, I had to toggle
Orca a few times, when switching from one page to the next.
When I started my new system, I found that the login greeter did not
come up talking, as it would in Trisquel. The 'f4' keystroke got Orca
talking on the dialogue, but attempts to explore it caused the greeter
to crash, thereby preventing logins. I gave the 'reboot' command from
another console, and waited. This time, the greeter came up talking,
and I just entered my password. A talking Mate session, set up almost
according to a previously-made configuration, came up. In the new
session, "alt+ctrl+tab' does not work as it should, though it is shown
as bound in the Keyboard Shortcuts dialogue. I set the Redmond panel
layout, as mentioned above, and did a few post-install things. The
system is now running.
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