How much ram does gnome plus a screen reader take up then? email: jkenn337 at gmail.com skype: jkenn337 msn: kenn6498ku at hotmail.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Daniel Dalton" <d.dalton@xxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2008 2:28 AM Subject: Re: programs that work good with speakup > On Tue, 19 Feb 2008, josh wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Are there any good msn messenger, > > Dunno, think so. > Why not search the repo and try stuff out? > Lots of cli apps will be accessible. Actually most. > Just some better than others. > >> skype > > No. Skype for linux is a qt app I believe. > Or its not gtk or something. > So its not even accessible with orca in a gui. > >> word processor >> spreadsheet > > Come on. If you want this stuff you really need a gui. > Gnome isn't that big. With everything up and running maybe just over 1 gb. > or maybe 2 gb. Dunno exactly. > >> and accessible games that work good with speakup? > > No! > > None for a gui anyway. > If you want all this stuff with no gui linux probably isn't for you. > I actually am trying to get an audio game to run in wine with gnome... > >> I want to use grml since I hear that gnome takes up lots of memory and > > Well no not exactly. > Debian etch and lenny I guess... Can be installed with no desktop. > And you can always remove gnome from ubuntu I guess. But dunno who would > bother. > You should probably get a gui as well even through startx so stuff like > spreadsheet and word processor work. > >> stuff. > > What stuff? > > -- > Daniel Dalton > > http://members.iinet.net.au/~ddalton/ > d.dalton at iinet.net.au > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup