Hi Thomas, Thanks for your X-windows/Gnome/Gnopernicus explanation! It made things much more clear. I did manage to find an archive of the Gnome Accessability list where several threads discussed the trials and tribulations of installing Gnome and Gnopernicus. I suppose the question now is: Do I have the time it'll likely take to install Gnome and Gnopernicus given its current state of pre-beta? It's definitly tempting! Monty On Mon, 16 Sep 2002, Thomas D. Ward wrote: >Hi. Well, I will preface my message by saying that the gnopernicus team is >still several weeks away from anything looking like a stable beta release. >There are many things to do yet. > >The gui environment can be broken down into three basic parts. You have >the X-Windows server. This contains vidio drivers, vidio resolution, and >is the under lying part of the Windows environment. Then, you have a >Window >maniger such as sawfish. Then, you have a desktop, the part you actually >work with such as Gnome and KDE. > >It has been my experience that Gnome and KDE applications can be run with >either desktop. However, KDE applicationss are not vary accessible because >they are written in QT which has no screen reader hooks where Gnome >applications written in gtk+ do or will soon have them. > > To work with Gnopernicus you will need to download the Gnome 2.0.2 >source, build it, and install it. Which is a huge under taking by itself. > >Once that is done you will need to check out the Gnome speech server, >gnopernicus screen reader, and gnome magnifyer, and build, and install >them. > >You will also require either Viavoice rtk rpm, or build and install the >festival speech system. > >Then, you need to change some environment variables here, modify a file >there, and you might get it talking. As I said you can do things with it, >but we are not discussing stable and working code yet. > >I believe the gnopernicus home page is: > >http://www.baum.ro/gnopernicus.html > >Hth. > > > > >_______________________________________________ >Speakup mailing list >Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > -- -------------------------------------------------------------- SUBMERGED IN THE 6o4 AREA CODE A proud user of the LINUX Operating System! ----------------------------------------------------------------------
