MATE chosen by default instead of gnome for blind people [Was: Debian Installer Stretch Alpha 6 release]

[Nick Gawronski]

Hi, I am for any desktop provided it has good accessibility support and 
that orca works equally as good with the applications I need to use 
mainly browsing the web and connecting and disconnecting to wireless 
networks.  I am also wondering if it has something to do with pulseaudio 
and the issues with running both orca and espeakup at the same time?  
Nick Gawronski


On 5/22/2016 5:13 AM, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Cyril Brulebois, on Sat 21 May 2016 23:13:17 +0200, wrote:
>>   * brltty:
>>      - Install MATE desktop by default when brltty is used in d-i.
>>   * espeakup:
>>      - Install MATE desktop by default when espeakup is used in d-i.
> This change has triggered discussion on the debian-boot IRC channel. To
> summarize, gnome people are surprised that MATE would be preferred by
> blind people and wonder what they need to improve in gnome. I answered
> that it was more a problem of general trend towards visual ways of
> using the desktop, which can't be made really usable, but that's only a
> sketchy answer, they need more precise examples.
>
> Could blind people here comment on this: why you don't use gnome and
> prefer MATE instead? (or the converse of course, the idea is not to
> blame gnome, we just want to select by default what is best for users,
> according to their situation. Ideally we'd just say "pick whatever,
> they're all good").
>
> Samuel
>