Hi, On Sun, May 22, 2016 at 09:56:00PM +0200, Mario Lang wrote: >Samuel Thibault <sthiba...@debian.org> writes: > >> Cyril Brulebois, on Sat 21 May 2016 23:13:17 +0200, wrote: >>> * brltty: >>> - Install MATE desktop by default when brltty is used in d-i. >>> * espeakup: >>> - Install MATE desktop by default when espeakup is used in d-i. >> >> This change has triggered discussion on the debian-boot IRC channel. To >> summarize, gnome people are surprised that MATE would be preferred by >> blind people and wonder what they need to improve in gnome. I answered >> that it was more a problem of general trend towards visual ways of >> using the desktop, which can't be made really usable, but that's only a >> sketchy answer, they need more precise examples. >> >> Could blind people here comment on this: why you don't use gnome and >> prefer MATE instead? (or the converse of course, the idea is not to >> blame gnome, we just want to select by default what is best for users, >> according to their situation.
I'm using MATE for my daily job because I started with GNOME 2.x in the past and therefor it is more familiar to me than GNOME3. Maybe I should give GNOME3 a chance and see how things work, but to be honest I've heard nothing good about accessibility and I know some blind people switching from GNOME3 to MATE because they find it better and easier to use. But I must also mension that I am no power user regarding to graphical desktops. I use MATE to work with Iceweasel, gajim, and mumble and sometimes pluma or writer and calc from the libreoffice package, without this tools I can't stay in contact with my colleagues, browse modern websites or quickly edit or read office documents, but the main work I still do inthe textbased terminal where I use mostly mutt for mailing and ofcourse ssh, vi and all the textbased linuxtools for the systemadministrative tasks I need to get done for my job. Cheers, Christian
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