How accessible at installing and beyond is cinnamon? > On Apr 6, 2022, at 2:17 PM, Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Cinnamon would qualify as a desktop and is supposed to be similar to mate > in operation. > > > On Wed, 6 Apr 2022, Linux for blind general discussion wrote: > >> Just pointing out that Ratpoison+Strychnine, IceWm, Openbox and others aren't >> exactly full desktops, but are pretty much just the window manager side of >> things. A full desktop would include at least one panel with system >> tray/notification area, app indicators such as the battery monitor and clock, >> most of the time a file manager that doubles as a root window desktop that can >> include launchers and mount points and an application menu or some other type >> of launcher that allows you to see the applications on the system and launch >> them, usually grouped into various categories. Strychnine does do some of this >> for Ratpoison, but it's pretty much just a launcher menu and run window type >> of thing. Many components that would make it a full desktop are still missing, >> although it is possible to run Caja or Nautilus and possibly either mate-panel >> or gnome-panel along with it for a more full desktop experience if desired. >> >> >> About the best full desktop experience I've used is GNOME 2.x, which is >> continued as the MATE desktop. Some panel applets don't necessarily speak as >> much as they should, for example, nm-applet, which is the network manager, >> only says "panel," but for the most part, everything just works and is >> navigable with only a keyboard, although I find Orca's "speak object under >> mouse" to be fairly useful at times as well. GNOME 3.x and 40+ is another >> option, but some things seem to be a little less usable than the MATE desktop >> overall. KDE is coming along, but is still in the early stages of a11y >> development, so although many things are starting to work pretty well, others >> are still not quite usable at this stage. For full desktops, the only other >> partially usable options are xfce, lxde and lxqt, and all of those seem to be >> getting a bit long in the tooth, and some of these are even starting to lose >> some of the accessibility they once had. So as full desktops go, my three best >> recommendations would be MATE, then GNOME, then KDE. And then there are the >> window managers that include keyboard navigation, Ratpoison+Strychnine >> probably being the best of those options, although I have heard that IceWM, >> Fluxbox and Openbox, as well as possibly i3, can also be made more usable with >> either helper applications or hand-edited configuration files. >> >> ~Kyle >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Blinux-list mailing list >> Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx >> https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Blinux-list mailing list > Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list