I want to use XFCE

[josh]

Hi,

You said that I may have to install some gnome libraries? Would you be able 
to find which libraries need to be included and include them for the next 
major (or minor) release of XFCE? My ultimate plan hopefuly is to try and 
help out blind people in my state, and XFCE running with at-spi and Orca 
would be nice because I could eventually once I get my life together and 
such help out other blind people who may not have computers by giving them 
cheap computers running xubuntu ...also maybe for the next release of 
xubuntu which uses the XFCE desktop you could include those gnome libraries 
so that way XFCE could finally be accessible for blind people. Also is there 
any equivalent to direct-x in linux XFCE? I'm asking because audio games 
would be nice to have on XFCE, gnome, or both. There are currently no audio 
games for linux. Well, except for soundRTS written in Python.
I unfortunately am not a programmer yet, and not sure if I have what it 
takes to ever become one. I'll explain how an audio game works. With most 
audio games there is just a plain dialog box, because not sure about linux 
but in windows you need some indicator the program is running. Ok so the 
game has no graphics or pictures whatsoever in it. Let's take Dark Destroyer 
for example, a free space invaders game for blind people. no...better yet, 
enemy attack since it's free and open source. Ok so no pictures whatsoever 
on screen. Now when the main menu loads up when you up and down arrow you 
hear, start new game, check speakers. this is because when you arrow down to 
check speakers most audio games are in stereo. so this plays a sound that 
moves from the far left channel to the far right channel so you can tell if 
you speakers or headphones are set up in the right positions. So when you 
play the game, the game is based on matching where you hear the sounds at in 
the stereo field or in some cases, even the surround sound field. But most 
people don't have surround sound so all the games have stereo options also. 
So lets say there's an enemy plain sound in the right speaker I hit or hold 
in left and right arrows, moving the sound back and forth until it's 
centered. Then I hit the spacebar to fire whatever weapon i choose. then if 
I have the enemy sound centered the enemy is killed. in edition the sound 
lowers in pitch and starts out quiet and gets louder gradually as the enemy 
character gets closer. Shades of doom by gma games www.gmagames.com is 
another example of an audio game. If I could run most of my favorite 
programs in Linux I'd certainly switch to it. ESpeak for orca supports lots 
of languages so that's not a problem but I would really miss not being able 
to play jim's nfl football and other games like that.

Josh

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Brian J. Tarricone" <bjt23 at cornell.edu>
To: "XFCE general discussion list" <xfce at xfce.org>
Sent: Friday, February 08, 2008 1:28 PM
Subject: Re: I want to use XFCE


> josh wrote:
>>
>> I want to use the XFCE desktop because it's lite-weight and my computer 
>> will
>> run real fast with it. But I am blind. Will the orca screen reader work 
>> with
>> it? Can orca be made to work with it and can at-spi be included in XFCE 
>> so
>> orca works?
>
> I don't know if anyone's tried it, but it should work in theory.  AT-SPI
> isn't GNOME-specific; gtk supports it, which is what Xfce uses as its
> GUI toolkit.  I don't see anything about Orca that might be
> desktop-specific, though you may need to install some GNOME libraries to
> get it running.
>
> If you do have problems and might be able to offer some pointers or
> information as to how we can improve our accessibility, please let us 
> know.
>
> -brian
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