I agree that the accesibility stuff is very important. I think that Dyne-Bolic must be accesible for everybody and Gnome has the Orca software incorporated, that permits people with visual disability use free software. That's a very important fight within the free software movent and is very important to make this world more fair.

Salutes

> Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2011 12:13:02 +0200
> From: jaromil@???
> To: dynebolic@???
> Subject: Re: [dyne:bolic] how to customize the application menu?
>
>
> re all,
>
> On Wed, 28 Sep 2011, Marco Vladimir Lemus Yañez wrote:
>
> > http://www.freedesktop.org/standars/menu-spec/1.0/menu.dtd
> > It's not working, but maybe this is a way to get something, maybe we
> > must try to learn more things about gnome and then decide to keep it
> > or change it, that's my opinion.
>
> yes, the problem is that this system has been designed only for
> automatic menu population, from the point of view of distributions
> that are made automatically, instead of crafted by hand like
> dyne:bolic... so the result is a system where, to change position and
> categories of applications in the menu, you have to look for their
> .desktop files and edit them one by one. That's unmaintainable!
>
> Now, also judging from the response here, I think we can wisely step
> back from gnome2 and return to Xfce, so it won't be anymore a beta :)
>
> Still let me state that the reason why I wanted to try gnome2 is that
> its configuration system is really good! it presents a panel full of
> selections and most importantly has "accessibility" tools for people
> with different abilities: like braille, moving mouse with joystick and
> such. These things are lacking into Xfce ... :/
>
> Do you think that an hybrid approach here can be interesting?
> something based on gnome2 for configuration and helper programs, but
> with an Xfce panel ? I'll try experimenting on that...
>
> ciao!
>
>
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