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

Samuel Thibault sthibault at debian.org
Sun May 22 22:39:27 UTC 2016


Mario Lang, on Mon 23 May 2016 00:30:49 +0200, wrote:
> And, I also question intuitivity: If such documentation is necessary,
> the system isn't really inherently "accessible" from a usability
> stand-point.  Put in other words, why is such documentation even
> necessary.

Well, just like it was necessary to learn the basic GUI elements: a
window, a menu, a button. None of these were intuitive when coming from
MS-DOS CLI.

Samuel



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