Hello everyone, as the title suggests, today I released a new version of UMAI, the Ubuntu Mate Accessibility Improver utility. I felt this step to be increasingly more and more necessary, as the orca and accessibility development in general is progressing and leaving the last UM LTS in the dust. Wat's something I really love to see, except UMAI needed some updates too as a consequence. Either way, 0.4 is here, bringing the support for Ubuntu Mate 23.04, and all the new accessibility benefits. If you for some reason prefer sticking to LTS, that's fine too. 22.04 remains supported like before, and will stay that way at least until 24.04. That's not the only change, though. Besides having the latest gnome-45 Orca, 0.4 also removes the deb Firefox installation, meaning safer browsing and less annoyance with reinstalls, weirdly behaving icons etc. another important change is related to ocrdesktop. As those of you running the recent versions of Ubuntu / Debian have likely noticed, there is a new policy being enforced in regards to working with Python packages. It's no longer possible to install global packages / dependencies like before, every Python app needs to have its own virtual environment, where it's responsible for handling its dependencies. In other words, we're now forced to do things properly, what's quite a mess. Fortunately, if you don't want to fiddle with environments, packages and dependencies, UMAI will now do this for you, on all supported systems. I'm really, really glad I can provide this functionality, ocrdesktop is a critically essential accessibility tool, and I really can't imagine any newcomer to Linux who may have no technical knowledge / skills at all dealing with this. See: https://github.com/RastislavKish/umai for more information. Have fun Best regards Rastislav _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list