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On Sun, 11 Oct 2020, Ashley Dixon wrote: |
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> Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2020 07:30:19 |
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> From: Ashley Dixon <ash@××××××××××.uk> |
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> Reply-To: gentoo-user@l.g.o |
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> To: gentoo-user@l.g.o |
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> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo handbook |
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> On Sat, Oct 10, 2020 at 10:09:00PM -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: |
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> > missing lots of accessibility-related material. |
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> > I've installed several other versions of Linux before and got them |
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> > accessible using material found mostly on the internet for instructions. |
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> > The first one was RedHat 5.0 when that was a current distribution. |
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> > After that, slackware, debian, fedora ubuntu arch-linux coconut and jenux. |
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> > Anyone interested could do a youtube search for gentoo, and I'm pretty |
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> > sure you'll find I wasn't the only potential installer who ran into all |
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> > manner of unexpected behavior. |
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> YouTube probably isn't the best source of information for technical Linux |
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> documentation. Asking here on the mailing list is always good; the appropriate |
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> IRC channels can be helpful, too. Gentoo does not hold your hand and provide a |
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> pretty GUI for every potential option and use-case, because its range of target |
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> consumers is far too broad. The "all manner of unexpected behaviour" you're |
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> encountering is just the feeling of having to do some of the heavy-lifting |
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> yourself, which is certainly not a negative remark on Gentoo! |
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> If you have a very specific and niche issue, you can also reach out directly to |
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> the Gentoo Accessibility Project in different forms (#gentoo-accessibility; |
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> accessibility@g.o; gentoo-accessibility@l.g.o) [1]. |
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> > An A gentoo accessibility install podcast ought to have been available for |
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> > this distribution many years ago. |
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> A podcast for all accessibility use-cases in Gentoo would, once again, be far |
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> too broad and help only a minority of potentially interested viewers. A |
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> dedicated espeak(up) page on the Gentoo wiki would be great, however. I was |
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> rather surprised to see that one didn't exist. |
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> > A feature that would be useful for menuconfig would be the ability once a |
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> > search is done to jump onto the desired search item directly (if the item |
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> > were available at all). |
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> > Maybe that's communicated by colors, I don't know. |
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> Currently, the closest thing menuconfig provides is detailing the location of |
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> the `CONFIG_` option, in relation to the graphical menus one must navigate. |
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> Sometimes it's just easier to edit your `.config` manually; menuconfig can be |
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> terribly slow and cumbersome when you're only searching the option titles. |
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> [1] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Accessibility |
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This problem needs handling by gentoo accessibility project and I'll take |
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it their. |
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If this problem gets solved, I'll probably make a podcast at least for |
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speakup and maybe orca if I get that installed and working. It won't be |
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of much use to gentoo, but the blinux-list may find it of interest. |
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