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

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Quoting Krishnakant (2016-03-30 13:14:00)
> Dear Hamara Hackers.
> Your's truely and Vik have been having a discussion on a low memory 
> alternative and which is also accessible and easy to grasp.
> I suggested Mate and he wished as you see in the forwarded email that we 
> discuss it on the mailing list.
> I urge all of you to base your views on realistic grounds and not on 
> probable extra eferts which may be needed or personal favorites.
> Read the discussion below and we can discuss further.
> happy hacking.
> Krishnakant.
> 
> 
> 
> -------- Forwarded Message --------
> Subject:        Re: update on lxde accessibility
> Date:   Wed, 30 Mar 2016 12:09:54 +0100
> From:   Vikas Tara <vik at hamaralinux.org>
> To:     Krishnakant <krmane at openmailbox.org>
> 
> 
> 
> On 30/03/16 11:42, Krishnakant wrote:
> > Dear Vik,
> > I remmeber you asked me to find out about a11y on lxde.
> > Right now it is in progress and only little ground has been reach.
> > however Mate is also a low memory consuming desktop emvironment and is
> > tremendously accessible.
> > I came to know that it is extremely popular in Brazilian blind
> > community, they being second largest in the world when compared
> > country wise.
> > I am personlly using it as I write this email to you.
> > I feel strongly that there should be a Mate spin of Hamara as the user
> > interface is loved by many veteran users and new users find it easy to
> > grasp.
> > Kindly share your views on this.
> > If you feel this can be done, then my team can make a project on this,
> > without disturbing the current sugam branch.
> > Happy hacking.
> > Krishnakant.
> I think we should put it to the community and have an lxde vs mate
> discussion.
> 
> I would be happy to drop lxde if mate can work on the raspberry pi and
> other SBC's.

No doubt the most polished among (relatively) lightweight desktops is 
Mate - because it is basically a continuation of GNOME 2.x and as such 
has had lots of attention on usability in the past.

The main showstoppper for running Debian¹ on ARM-based devices is OpenGL 
- Mate (at least its core parts) can run without OpenGL, I believe.

Personally my concern is not so much "Mate or Lxde", but instead it is 
"GTK+ 2.x or GTK+ 3.x or Qt 4.x or Qt 5.x or which combination of 
those".  I believe _that_ is what makes it more or less lightweight - 
beyond avoiding OpenGL as core requirement.


 - Jonas


¹ Debian and *only* Debian, that is: Not a derived distro and not 
including non-free or other external parts.

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