Getting Involved
Bridger Reed-Lewis
bridgerreedlewis at gmail.com
Mon Jun 16 05:17:03 BST 2025
I just joined the matrix chat, other than the one I should join or
multiple?
On Sun, Jun 15, 2025 at 7:26 PM Bridger Reed-Lewis <
bridgerreedlewis at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thank you for sharing that with me, I wasn't aware of the zendalona
> <https://zendalona.com/accessible-coconut/> project. I am going to
> install it on a VM to see how it works, and maybe we can chat about
> integrating their work into KDE. Also as you said, yes i want to
> contribute to linux as a whole not just one flavor or distro. I guess how I
> look at it is, I should just concentrate on the most popular flavor, and
> work my way down the list. Oh, yeah I did end up seeing a lack of an
> accessibility category on their site. It was definitely frustrating.
>
> Oh, and I am doing the same thing, managing my time has been like
> pulling teeth lately. I volunteer a lot myself, not just for this project.
> So I understand, and respect others' precious time. About the equipment, I
> did have a question. In about 6-12 months, I wanted to purchase a linux
> compatible tablet, and phone to do similar testing. Do you have any
> recommendations?
>
> On Sun, Jun 15, 2025 at 2:23 AM Benson Muite <benson_muite at emailplus.org>
> wrote:
>
>>
>> On Sun, Jun 15, 2025, at 11:54 AM, Bridger Reed-Lewis wrote:
>> > Well idk 🤷 to be honest the most I can do is advocate and give
>> > suggestions. My goal is to install, and hopefully work with this
>> community
>> > to improve accessibility. One thing I will be asking for is
>> faster-whisper
>> > to be folks, and a setting button be added so it’s easier to install.
>> > Because right now it’s a nightmare to even get setup.
>>
>> The drawback with being able to customize your operating system is having
>> lots
>> of options - it takes some time to figure out which ones are suitable for
>> you. If you
>> will use Arch, get on their community channels, which are forums, irc and
>> mailing lists:
>> https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Getting_involved
>> Arch is a developer focused distribution - it allows you to do a lot, but
>> also requires some
>> time investment to make changes yourself with community assistance.
>>
>> Distributions such as:
>> https://zendalona.com/accessible-coconut/
>> are focused on accessibility.
>>
>> There is an effort to develop KDE Linux:
>> https://community.kde.org/KDE_Linux
>>
>> contact them in Matrix ( https://go.kde.org/matrix/#/%23kde-linux:kde.org
>> ) to see how
>> much accessibility support is currently available and what they would be
>> willing to add
>> in the near term. It is fairly new, so may have things that prevent it
>> from being usable
>> for you.
>>
>> Not everyone who contributes to KDE uses KDE linux though. As an
>> example, it would
>> be easier for me to contribute to Vojtux:
>> https://github.com/vojtapolasek/vojtux
>>
>>
>> >
>> > Outside of that, I still need to checkout all the text to speech
>> software
>> > along with eye tracking, speech control stuff too. Because I think this
>> > should be just be a click away from installing compared to now where I
>> feel
>> > like I need a damn degree in computer science to set it up.
>>
>> Suggestions for KDE applications that can help with accessibility are
>> welcome. Debian has a list at:
>> https://blends.debian.org/accessibility/tasks/kde
>>
>> Maybe this is something KDE should highlight at https://apps.kde.org/ an
>> accessibility category
>> is missing.
>>
>> KDE did have a speech recognition application Simon:
>> https://apps.kde.org/simon/
>> but it is currently unmaintained.
>>
>> If you expect to purchase again, and want dedicated support consider
>> contacting companies that
>> provide linux laptops, for example:
>> https://www.thinkpenguin.com/gnu-linux/penguin-t4-gnulinux-laptop
>> https://slimbook.com/en/
>> https://kfocus.org/spec/
>> https://manjaro.org/enterprise
>> https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/
>> https://system76.com/
>>
>>
>> Most of us who contribute do so as volunteers as time permits - we
>> appreciate the freedom
>> to change and improve things, but also need to prioritize with other
>> things in life.
>>
>> >
>> > On Sun, Jun 15, 2025 at 00:33 Benson Muite <benson_muite at emailplus.org>
>> > wrote:
>> >
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> On Sun, Jun 15, 2025, at 11:24 AM, Rob Whyte [Fudge] wrote:
>> >> > You could get someone to build a package that depends on all you
>> >> > separate packages and also makes system changes using gsettings.
>> >> >
>> >> > You can use packages to update configuration files also.
>> >> >
>> >> > Would this be a possible solution?
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> > Speak to someone on the KDE core team about packaging your changes.
>> >>
>> >> KDE applications are not directly packaged for Arch linux by KDE, but
>> by
>> >> Arch
>> >> linux packagers. The Arch package repository does contain KDE
>> packages:
>> >> https://archlinux.org/packages/
>> >>
>> >> but faster-whisper seems like a candidate for AUR
>> >> https://aur.archlinux.org/
>> >> and seems to already be there:
>> >> https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/python-faster-whisper
>> >>
>> >> If there are problems with integrating with KDE software, that would be
>> >> useful
>> >> to know.
>> >>
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> > cheers
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> > On 11/06/2025 8:09 am, Bridger Reed-Lewis wrote:
>> >> >> Because right now, it requires someone with the knowledge of the
>> >> >> terminal, along with access to chatgpt to troubleshoot. If not they
>> >> >> either have to know what they’re doing or rely on the community to
>> >> >> help them.
>> >> >>
>> >> >> What I’m envisioning is something that built into the settings very
>> >> >> similar to what Apple has, so I think in about 2 months I should
>> have
>> >> >> a decent presentation and summary of what they can do.
>> >> >>
>> >> >> On Tue, Jun 10, 2025 at 13:59 Shervin Emami <
>> shervin.emami at gmail.com>
>> >> >> wrote:
>> >> >>
>> >> >> That sounds like a great idea.
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Cheers,
>> >> >> Shervin.
>> >> >>
>> >> >> On Wed, 11 June 2025, 5:35 am Bridger Reed-Lewis,
>> >> >> <bridgerreedlewis at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> >>
>> >> >> I think my goal is to test these out, and meet with the
>> board
>> >> >> along with the accessibility person they hired to recommend
>> >> >> some changes for the OS so that these things are more
>> >> >> integrated into the system so that those with disabilities
>> can
>> >> >> just easily use these out of the box
>> >> >>
>> >> >> On Tue, Jun 10, 2025 at 03:46 Shervin Emami
>> >> >> <shervin.emami at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Oh ok, so Bridger was thinking that the functionality is
>> >> >> already integrated into the dedktop environment,
>> whereas I
>> >> >> was thinking that Bridger is willing to implement the
>> >> >> integration into KDE.
>> >> >>
>> >> >> The speech recognition engines convert speech files to
>> >> >> text, they don't have any OS integration. But it's not
>> >> >> that hard to implement basic OS integration by getting
>> >> >> speech recognition to emulate pressing keys on a
>> keyboard.
>> >> >> I hacked together my own basic scripts for doing that.
>> You
>> >> >> could turn my script into something more convenient to
>> use:
>> >> >>
>> >> >> https://github.com/shervinemami/push-to-whisper
>> >> >>
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Cheers,
>> >> >> Shervin.
>> >> >>
>> >> >> On Mon, 9 June 2025, 8:37 pm Bridger Reed-Lewis,
>> >> >> <bridgerreedlewis at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> >>
>> >> >> It’s installing right now, and no it’s not a feature
>> >> >> yet from what I know. I’m going to see how accurate
>> it
>> >> >> is though once I get back from work. From what I
>> >> >> understand though it runs this in a separate window
>> >> >> not with the os, which is what I’m looking for
>> similar
>> >> >> to what Apple and windows does it.
>> >> >>
>> >> >>
>> >> >> On Mon, Jun 9, 2025 at 02:06 Benson Muite
>> >> >> <benson_muite at emailplus.org> wrote:
>> >> >>
>> >> >>
>> >> >>
>> >> >> On Mon, Jun 9, 2025, at 12:52 PM, Bridger
>> >> >> Reed-Lewis wrote:
>> >> >> > Hey so I set up what I could with a older
>> laptop
>> >> >> but I was looking through
>> >> >> > our past conversations, and I wasn’t aware
>> that
>> >> >> faster-whisper didn’t work
>> >> >> > within program, is there a effort to fix this?
>> >> >>
>> >> >> You would probably need to file a bug report,
>> but
>> >> >> without more details it is unclear
>> >> >> where. For example, which program does it not
>> >> >> work with? Does it work with any
>> >> >> programs? Is this on Arch with KDE on Wayland?
>> Do
>> >> >> other programs similar to
>> >> >> fast-whisper work?
>> >> >>
>> >>
>>
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