Re: [orca-list] Accessibility Testing in Ubuntu 12.04

[Mallory van Achterberg <stommepoes stommepoes nl>]

> Thomas Ward <thomasward1978 gmail com> wrote:
> > However, I've never understood why Cononical decided to dump Gnome in
> > favor of Unity in the first place. There doesn't seem to be any
> > advantage in Unity over Gnome, and in fact for those of us with
> > disabilities it has made matters much worse, because we have to
> > install a system where everything is broken and then attempt to
> > install Gnome, configure it to login by default, just to get a usable
> > GUI. 

My husband upgraded to Oneiric on his work machine, and of course
because it's different, he hated the interface (he doesn't need a11y)...
but we both felt Unity was a sort of Linux-version of Windows8's Metro
interface and the Mac/mobile interfaces. Lots of large, shiny
touch-screeny things, most apps hidden away, and everyone sharing the
same menu bar. Maybe the current generation of kids growing up on
iPhones and the like find this a more intuitive interface?? For me,
nothing is intuitive if I haven't already learned it elsewhere. I have
no nose for these things.

-Mallory