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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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