Hello, Please keep debian-accessibility in Cc for accessibility matters, otherwise concerned people won't be able to provide information :)
Neil Williams, le Thu 24 Oct 2013 18:08:56 +0100, a écrit : > On Thu, 24 Oct 2013 18:31:52 +0200 > Lucas Nussbaum <lu...@debian.org> wrote: > > > On 24/10/13 at 16:40 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > > > This goes back to during the wheezy release cycle. There was a > > > little discussion around a change in tasksel [1], but rather too > > > late in the day for the change to make sense. Now we have rather > > > more time, I feel. Let's change the default desktop for > > > installation to xfce. > > > Cons: > > > * <please fill in here> > > > > What's the the status of XFCE regarding accessibility? > > > > That was a big strengh of GNOME for a long time, though I've heard > > rumors (sorry not to be more specific) that gnome-shell has some > > unsolved issues in that regard, which is a problem since GNOME > > classic/fallback mode is gone in 3.8. > > > > Even if not a strong requirement, I like the idea of an accessible > > default Debian desktop. > > Most of the apps used on top of GNOME will continue to work with XFCE, > it's not as if the underlying libraries are changing. If anything, it's > *less* work to get such apps working with XFCE than it will be > migrating to full GNOME integration. Well, if the desktop itself, i.e. what is used to start applications, is not accessible, one can't start applications, be they accessible or not :) Samuel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20131024171549.gc5...@type.youpi.perso.aquilenet.fr
