Re: X Accessibility (Was: Gnopernicus ...)
Kenny Hitt wrote:
Your feelings are from getting thrown into something new and clearly very
different.
Agreed. I reckon I'll get used to things eventually. And there's still that
GUI side in Linux, though it's optional.
what would happen if you opened "My computer", selected your hd, and press
shift
delete on your Windows box?
It depends, it probably won't let me delete the core system files. However,
as I'm not running Virtual PC, won't be testing that any time soon <smiley>.
I did test what would happen if msdos.sys in Win 9X isn't as big as
required. I killed the comment lines and WIndows wouldn't start up.
But then again, you do admit messing a LInux system, especially if you are
temporarily running as root, is a lot easier than doing as much damage in a
GUI environment. MOre power means more responsibility, as well.
I'll be manu-summarizing the following passage. Hope it is still
intelligible.
I start in a tree view. moving up ann down read the nodes at the current
level. Enter expands the sub tree for "installed packages". down arrow to
select the one called "Gnome". down arrow to "main" and press enter again.
get a long list of programs. there is a window at the bottom of the screen
with a short description of the object under the cursor. I here the
selected
item and then it's short description. I'm currently loged into 4 text
consoles
and one Gnome session. Which session do you think I just described?
I suppose this could be some kind of a text mode GUI, similar to installers
in DOS games or the dialog interface in Debian, only more sophisticated.
Right?
Sounds nice to me at least. Let me think of some navigation examples in
Windows, though:
Typing a Google search: Windows+r to open the run dialog, ie and enter to
run iexplore. Google is my home page.
Deleting stuff in temp: windows+r, c:\temp\, enter, ctrl+a, shift+delete, y
Changing mouse settings: windows, c, m. Darn mnemonic as well, c to open the
control panel, m to pick mouse.
Directory navigation: windows+r, c: enter, bo enter, p enter, p enter, a
enter, pr enter. i i goes to:
C:\bookshelf\Programming Languages\Perl\All about Perl\prog\index.html
The difference to auto-completing is that I can browse things on a letter
basis as well. Not to mention it reads the selection changes in real time
(not the whole path just the selected item in a list view).
Releasing the source would allow someone to easily compete
with them.
So, is it legal to make closed-source products that are based on
open-source, like the Mozilla engine? Perhaps this is a common
misconception, but I thought GPL disallows this.
you can modify it's source to use one of the accessible libs.
That's true. It might even be a realistic scenario to me some day. But the
average computer user is no hacker, well, on second thought, perhaps the
average Linux user is.
I would make lots of mistakes if
I tried to run Windows again.
No matter what OS, having gotten used to something as the first or current
OS of some kind does bring some legacy. I'd find Mac and Linux GUIs
difficult too, for the exact same reason. And one friend of mine is a
diehard Amiga user whose not really into Linux, OS X or Windows at all.
Frankly speaking, though, I find I'm a lot more at home with Gnome than I am
with OS X. The placement of the menu bar and better contrast makes a big
difference. OH yes and it is great to have alt+f4 close a Window. Though for
consistency's sake, alt+f1 to f3 should do something sensible as well. Do
they do anything in Gnome? things that come to mind:
minimize, maximize, shade
or howabout switching favorite desktops or resoes?
--
With kind regards Veli-Pekka Tätilä (vtatila@mail.student.oulu.fi)
Accessibility, game music, synthesizers and more:
http://www.student.oulu.fi/~vtatila
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