[Hamara-devel] Fwd: Re: update on lxde accessibility

[Vikas Tara]

On 30/03/16 20:31, Krishnakant wrote:
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> On Thursday 31 March 2016 12:56 AM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
>> Quoting Krishnakant (2016-03-30 18:54:47)
>>> On Wednesday 30 March 2016 08:55 PM, Vikas Tara wrote:
>>>> On 30/03/16 16:18, Krishnakant wrote:
>>>>> And Mate as I use it now I see it is really very low on memory
>>>>> footprint and as you rightly pointed out it is as good as a
>>>>> modernized gnome 2 interface.
>>>> I haven't used it in quite a while - does anyone have a view on it's
>>>> performance vs lxde?
>>>>
>>>> As a desktop it's probably more fully featured - I just remember that
>>>> gnome 2 did seem to get bloated towards the end.
>>> It is basically not Gnome 2 verbatim.
>>> They have used the interface from gnome 2 but all libraries, inter
>>> process communication, ATSPI etc is performant and has nothing to do
>>> with gnome 2.
>> Are you sure _all_ libraries are replaced?
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>> I believe _some_ libraries have been replaced, while the rest are only
>> renamed, to ease distinguishing them as the fork they are.
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> Wel most important once are for sure.
> The simple logic is that Orca, the screen reader needs a lot of these 
> new libraries to work.
> If It was gnome2 as-is then I would not be using latest atspi and Orca 
> any how.
> Never the less the performance is really very good and It is pretty 
> actively developed.
> I see now that raspberry pie is supported.

I've had a decent look at Mate now and I'm reasonably convinced it's a 
good move for hamara sugam.

There are many more applications in Mate and it's GTK3 support looks 
good too.

It's available in debian - so moving sugam from lxde to mate does not 
look like a big task.

I'll get started on it and see how it goes. Anyone who wants to pitch in 
- let me know!