Trent W. Buck <trentbuck@gmail.com> wrote:
Har har. That's like saying entropy will go down.
Maybe.
I think those who run simple window managers rather than "desktop environments" are well justified in doing so. For accessibility reasons, this isn't an option for me; it's best to run the accessibility infrastructure, when I do need an X environment, in GNOME (for which it was written).
Pity you can't just do everything in emacspeak :-/
Mostly, I can (either that or a console session). Web sites requiring HTML 5, DOM and associated APIs are the main exception at the moment. LibreOffice is installed but I mostly run it with --headless on the command line to perform file format conversions. I occasionally test the accessibility features of the UI and report bugs; it's like an ensurance policy - I hope I don't have to use it, but it's important for it to be there in case I do. LaTeX, HTML and other markup formats serve my writing needs well. The only situation in which I would need the LibreOffice UI is a collaborative editing cycle with word processor users, i.e., requiring conversion in both directions with preservation of the formatting. At the moment, this isn't the kind of work I do.