[Hamara-devel] Fwd: Re: Ubiquity Packaging work
Vikas Tara
vik at hamaralinux.org
Tue Apr 12 15:26:38 BST 2016
On 12/04/16 14:35, Raju D V wrote:
> There are a lot of such issues which makes packaging Ubiquity for
> Debian/hamara a difficult and time consuming task.
>
> Considering the time which has been lost trying to port Ubiquity on
> Debian/hamara, we have decided to ditch Ubiquity for the time being and
> use live-installer from Linux Mint.
>
> Live-installer is an easy to use OS installer and works fine with debian
> based systems.
>
>
> Compared to Ubiquity the only place where live-installer fails to
> perform well is the accessibility part.
> If we can get live-installer completely accessible then it is a worthy
> option to Ubiquity.
>
> Making this change will help us releasing the Debian based Hamara Sugam
> distro in a shorter time frame and in a better way.
>
> Looking forward to your opinions,
Thanks Raju and for all the effort on Ubiquity so far, however this does
seem to be right time to throw in the towel.
I'm keen to work on the accessibility side so am looking into how to
make that happen.
Would be interested in any pointers from anyone - as I've not worked on
bringing orca support to an application before.
Vik
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