Yes, there are some applications that now work. You might find one for which there is no text alternative, but I cannot think of one now. However, Orca is testable and the Authors need us to try applications and report problems. I have tested the planner application and reported a problem or two. That resulted in a more accessible planner application in less than a week. You might want to wait a while if you are not ready for testing and finding problems. Regards, Willem On Wed, 12 Jul 2006, Michael Whapples wrote: > Is orca useful? I mainly ask that because I like keeping my system clean of > things that aren't very useful, and gnome, X and all the GUI stuff wasn't > useful as I could never get going with gnopernicus. for anything except its > own control panel. Suppose I mean is there things I can do with gnome and > orca that I can't do with speakup in a text console. > > From > Michael Whapples > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Willem van der Walt" <wvdwalt at csir.co.za> > To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2006 8:22 AM > Subject: Re: off-topic: Just how the heck does one use gnome/gnopernicus > > >> I found Orca a lot esier to use. >> That is if you can get it going. It requires Gnome 2.14. >> It will say the required info by default where it works. >> I never could get any real work done using Gnopernicus. >> Regards, Willem >> >> >> On Tue, 11 Jul 2006, Joshua Lambert wrote: >> >>> If someone that knows how to actually do something with gnopernicus could >>> respond I would very much appreciate some help. <smile> >>> Here is how I launch gnopernicus from a text console. >>> xinit gnopernicus >>> All I seem to be able to do is change the voice parameters and look at >>> gnopernicus's preferences dialogue. How does one actually launch >>> applications? Or use window managers? >>> Cheers, >>> Josh >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Speakup mailing list >>> Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >>> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >>> >> >> -- >> This message is subject to the CSIR's copyright, terms and conditions and >> e-mail legal notice. Views expressed herein do not necessarily represent >> the >> views of the CSIR. >> >> CSIR E-mail Legal Notice >> http://mail.csir.co.za/CSIR_eMail_Legal_Notice.html >> CSIR Copyright, Terms and Conditions >> http://mail.csir.co.za/CSIR_Copyright.html >> For electronic copies of the CSIR Copyright, Terms and Conditions and the >> CSIR >> Legal Notice send a blank message with REQUEST LEGAL in the subject line >> to >> HelpDesk at csir.co.za. >> >> >> This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by >> MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks Transtec >> Computers for their support. >> >> >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > -- This message is subject to the CSIR's copyright, terms and conditions and e-mail legal notice. Views expressed herein do not necessarily represent the views of the CSIR. CSIR E-mail Legal Notice http://mail.csir.co.za/CSIR_eMail_Legal_Notice.html CSIR Copyright, Terms and Conditions http://mail.csir.co.za/CSIR_Copyright.html For electronic copies of the CSIR Copyright, Terms and Conditions and the CSIR Legal Notice send a blank message with REQUEST LEGAL in the subject line to HelpDesk at csir.co.za. This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks Transtec Computers for their support.