Gnopernicus, Gnome and Ubuntu (was Re: [Hudlug] linux accessabilit

[MICHAEL WEAVER]

Hi!
Thanks for all your suggestions.
I probably wasn't just thinking about accessability for Gnucash, I would not 
rule out any alternatives as regards keeping financial records, with me not 
using Linux with speech at the moment apart from Oralux which is quite 
limited because it is a live CD based on Gnoppics and uses mostly Emacs 
which is verry difficult for a Linux newby even for someone used to shortcut 
keys, I am not likely to know lots of applications that are available in 
Linux whether they are usable by the Blind or not.
I presume that Gnucash is a bit like MS Money. I know some people use 
Spreadsheets for financial records but I have never got figures to quite add 
up when using say Excel but then Spreadsheets was never really my thing at 
College.
I wasn't been pessamistic as regards work, I am supposed to be doing some 
voluntary work when the hospital gets back to me and if we are talking about 
time, the fact I am not working at the moment does have its advantage as 
regards putting efort into making more applications under Linux and a wider 
range of them area wise ie accounting, Internet etc more accessable to the 
Blind. as you said yourself Ben a lot of work is being done on accessability 
by people who don't always have the time which could be invested to help 
move things along in application accessability hence the lack of Linux 
accessability to the Blind so apart from my lack of being able to sit down 
and write a program, the time I have available while not being tied down to 
a number of hours in a job should in theory be an advantage rather than a 
hinderence rather than start something, go to work half way through what I 
am hoping to achieve and then not finish it because I am too busy or have 
lost track of what I am doing and end up getting sidetracked which is 
sometimes what I have found with potential relationships.
On 2/27/06, Anne Wilson <cannewilson at tiscali.co.uk> wrote:
> On Monday 27 February 2006 13:03, Ben Fowler wrote:
> > On 2/27/06, Anne Wilson <cannewilson at tiscali.co.uk> wrote:
> > > On Monday 27 February 2006 11:03, Ben Fowler wrote:
> > [ snip ]
> I did not mean that I was unwilling to help with GnuCash, but merely that 
> if
> it is helpful to Michael to look at options I'm willing to help.  I do 
> know
> something of GnuCash already, so reviewing KMyMoney for comparison 
> shouldn't
> be too difficult.  Unless there are already reasons for sticking with GC I
> would certainly recommend comparison.  I'd be happy to go along either 
> line.
>
> BTW, Michael, the fact that ubuntu is gnome by default does not stop you
> running kde applications - the required libraries would be installed along
> with the application.

Just a note that I belive that Ubuntu 5.10 comes with Gnopernicus, and
though it is possible that you already had in mind choosing this distro, I
would expect this factor to sway you to Ubuntu if there were any doubts,

Ben

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