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

[Krishnakant]

On Friday 08 April 2016 07:22 PM, Vikas Tara wrote:
> On 30/03/16 20:31, Krishnakant wrote:
>>
>>
>> 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?
>>>
>>> I believe _some_ libraries have been replaced, while the rest are only
>>> renamed, to ease distinguishing them as the fork they are.
>>>
>>>
>> 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!
+ it is extremly accessible, well actually most accessible low memory 
desktop.
And I see a lot of apps are effectively faster Than on Gnome or Unity 
for sure.
I get more battery life these days.
happy hacking.
Krishnakant.