Hello everyone,
today I decided to finally release my accessibility
improving script for Ubuntu Mate 24.04. I’m not entirely
satisfied with certain things, mostly Orca not starting on the
login screen despite an explicit configuration of Arctica to
launch it, but the rest of things seem to be pretty okay. Plus
we have the new workaround for Orca not starting after session
login because of Mate bug (this affects all other Mate distros
btw, like Fedora).
Speaking of the Redhat distro, I’m seriously considering writing
a Fedora version of UMAI. The thing is, the new Flutter based
installer which UM uses is something… I can deal with as someone
who has gone through countless Linux installation processes,
like many of us, but I’m not sure how convincing would the
experience be for an entirely new user, who, in addition, may
not even be used to work with flat review and know how to apply
it.
Fedora has a really cute installer which is imo even better than
Ubiquity was, GUI-wise, but many of the things it requires to
setup after the initial installation are likely to require quite
a bit of GSettings research, such as figuring out how to
activate the advanced mate menu programmatically. Thus for now,
this stays an open thing.
Anyway, if anyone decides to go with UM these days, anything else than 24.04 is pretty much obsolete from accessibility viewpoint. So, welcome on Ubuntu Mate 24.04!
Note: Automatic system upgrades to 24.04 are known to go bad for pretty much everyone, blind or sighted, I would strongly encourage a clean installation if you’re running an older version of the distro.
Best regards
Rastislav