I want to use XFCE

[Kok, Auke]

josh wrote:
> 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.

try using your "ENTER" key a few times after you use the "." key, it will
seriously increase the chance that people actually will read your e-mails!

On top of that, you might even get a reply!

now, on to the stuff you're discussing:

xubuntu folks can tell you what packages they can add to make you happy, please
contact them directly.

linux does not do direct-X, but opengl instead. if you need direct-X, you can only
use it through WINE and it sucks, you don't want it anyway.

it almost sounds like you should focus on finding a linux group with an interest
in blind people, and I do not know of any myself. I doubt anyone in the Xfce
community can help you with that.

Auke