What I think would be nice is some page with the latest status of speakup in distributions (e.g. Slackware, Ubuntu, Fedora, Gentoo) and possibly user-contributed instructions as to what is required to get it working (like on Gentoo, which is kind of fun since it does everything from source). I think one of the big problems right now is that people want their distro to "just work" (tm), but don't know what they can just download and burn to get a talking console. I mean, Ubuntu is all the rage lately and that's great, but it's not too cool if you want speakup. Okay, I'm done ranting. Garrett Gaijin wrote: > On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 05:04:30PM +0200, Willem van der Walt wrote: >> 3. have an indication of dead none-working programs if they are still >> shown. > > I would be more interested in working programs, myself, starting > with the best first and optionally detailing problems and their > work-arounds, if any. FTP site organization in a tree > structured format would be nice, too. Especially for us > near-clueless newbies. Personally, I work best starting with > descriptive topic links and being able to run a serch that's > likely to find the topic I'm looking for, searching for > words/text like "compil", "keys", and "compatib", and knowing > I'll find compiling instructions, defined keystrokes, and > compatible software, respectively. Key topics being listed in > alphabetical order would also be helpful for people so new that > they don't know how to use search would even be a help if an > index becomes a bit large. Just tossing out ideas, not > suggestions. HTH, > > Michael > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
