Will Accessibility tools remain hidden packages?

[Will Backman]

On Thu, 2004-04-15 at 09:51, Colin Charles wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-04-13 at 04:36, Will Backman wrote:
> > Accessibility tools such as Gnopernicus and Festival are "hidden"
> > packages, as they do not show up under System Setting->Add/Remove
> > Application.  I understand that this is because they are not considered
> > ready for general use, and their inclusion was to at least make it
> > easier to install and test for those who are interested.  Thank you for
> > including them in FC1 and FC2, and for the additional updates I see in
> > rawhide.
> 
> Its part of some GNOME packages iirc, but that said, it could be more
> prominent
> 
> Gnopernicus, is great, and getting used to it with festival might be a
> little difficult, but you'll get the hang of it
> 
> > When might they be added to the Add/Remove Applications system?  Perhaps
> > I'd have more luck asking when it will rain... ;-)
> 
> Submit an RFE to Bugzilla, and I'm sure this can be fairly easily fixed 
> 
> -- 
> Colin Charles, byte at aeon.com.my
> http://www.bytebot.net/
> 
Part of the reason I ask is because of Apple's recent moves to include
their own screen reading software in OSX.  I know Apple's solution is
not here yet, but it would be a shame for Linux to be behind on GUI
screen reading capabilities.