Hello, I am curious, admittedly, what you use for graphical environments? Is it Orca? Gnome? Something else? Thanks, Zack. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alex Snow" <alex_snow@xxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2007 7:35 PM Subject: Re: Suggestion: Speakup desktop guide >A graphical environment does have its advantages...I find the console > web browsers inadiquit for lots of things (full javascript support, > flash, adn java applets come to mind), and certain file management > tasks are far easier in a guy then cli, such as copying files from a > directory to somewhere else, where the multiple files to be copied are > not contiguous. > On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 11:43:05PM -0300, Cleverson > wrote: >> Hi Zack, >> >> In fact, I don't know if the term "desktop" aplies to people who prefer >> command line programs rather than graphical ones, but I really think >> there >> is no reason to use a graphical environment, since text mode is faster >> and I >> think there are console programs for any task. >> >> For blind users, perhaps the only difference is that in text mode you >> should >> memorize some command strings instead of key strokes. Nothing's hard, to >> me >> at least... >> >> Cheers, >> Cleverson >> >> "Be realistic; ask for the impossible." >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________________ >> Yahoo! Mail - Sempre a melhor op??o para voc?! >> Experimente j? e veja as novidades. >> http://br.yahoo.com/mailbeta/tudonovo/ >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Speakup mailing list >> Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > -- > I don't know why, but first C programs tend to look a lot worse than > first programs in any other language (maybe except for fortran, but then > I suspect all fortran programs look like `firsts') > -- Olaf Kirch > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
