Where do I get this useful information? I would like to get started using Linux. I haven't been successful with the distribution CD that I downloaded and burned. You wrote: > People are not supposed to find useful information *here*, they're > supposed to find useful information in the *Notice*, which is > spkguide.txt and the manual pages, not this list ( All I have to work with is Windows XP and JAWS. I thought that it would be easier to chat with someone on your Reflector. The information sent me through this list service didn't help. Maybe I am doing something wrong or nobody is there to chat. Your web site http://linux-speakup.org/ is not helpful. Can anyone help? ----- Original Message ----- From: "John G. Heim" <jheim@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Tuesday, September 22, 2009 10:52 AM Subject: Re: How to use espeakup, revisited... > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Samuel Thibault" <samuel.thibault at ens-lyon.org> > To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." > <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > People are not supposed to find useful information *here*, they're > supposed to find useful information in the *Notice*, which is > spkguide.txt and the manual pages, not this list (as that would mean > that users would have to either browse the archive (tedious), or ask > a question, wait, get an answer, ask another question, wait again, > etc.). We clearly said that we welcome contributions to these (I > personnally have absolutely no time atm to work on it, but can gladly > commit). > Obviously, no one with any sense would dispute the fact that the most > efficient way to figure out how to use speakup is to read the > documentation. But I do have a suggestion that I think would save a lot of > headaches for us users. I think that the development team should try to > use this list as a way to notify users of changes. > > For example, I don't think any notice was posted to this list about the > switch from cvs to git. I used to use the shell script that came with > speakup to download updates. All of a sudden it stopped wworking. I read > this list almost every day and I never saw that coming. > > Obviously, I don't mean this as a criticism. I think you guys do fantastic > work. I'm just saying that you could probably help a lot of people to > avoid a lot of headaches if you posted messages here when such changes > occured. And this stuff happens all the time. For example, there was the > recent discussion about creating a file for a flag to indicate whether the > synth was active or not. How are we going to know when that gets done? I > guess I can keep browsing the documentation but wouldn't it make sense > just to post a notification of that kind of thing to this list? > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
