Caja-image-converter and Visual Aids

Hi!
Finally succeeded installing 16.04 and been spending my nights to make it perfect for me :slight_smile:
I have a couple of questions though :

  1. I have frequently used nautilus-image-converter over the years, right-clicking on an image and choosing it from the menu. When I found it for Caja I installed it (in Synaptic ) but it doesn’t appear now. What happened?
  2. My eyesight is very poor so I’ve been installing lots of themes with dark back-ground and white text colour which suits me best. But none of them works quite well. There are always windows where it’s impossible to read because both background and fonts are dark, and as in Software Center -white in both cases. Has anyone a suggestion for a theme I could use?

Hi buskamor

  1. Resize/rotate shows up in my r-click context menu. I’m running the mate 1.12 desktop. Are you fully updated? Tried a reboot?

  2. For readability there are the High Contrast themes. Have you tried to further tweak your theme to your liking? Fonts can be changed, the themes can be customized. Additional settings may be found in dconf-editor and in the Appearance app.

Seen this?
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Accessibility
some ideas here
http://askubuntu.com/questions/787469/what-is-the-ubuntu-accessibility-for-blind-people

Not being a user of visual aids, I have limited knowledge. So my last suggesting would be the Ububtu forums, they have a visual aids forum and of course a larger user base of such aids.

https://ubuntuforums.org/forumdisplay.php?f=145

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To convert images i use the program caja-image-converter.

You can install it with
sudo apt-get install caja-image-converter

You may need to re-login. After that you can right click on a picture and see the menu.

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Hi @buskamor, I’m not sure if this is nothing or everything…

Working in a 16.04 virtual machine with few images I mounted a server on my network via SSH. The Resize and Rotate options do NOT appear on these mounted image files. I copied a few pictures to my home directory and then it worked.

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Remember when you was a child and your parents tell you not to look at the sun or you'd get blind? The same goes for monitors because monitors are light emitting, not light reflective.
The less light, the best for the eye. Black and grey, grey + light grey are what it is needed. High contrast is not good, too much light. I guess it may be for those having macula degeneration or something like that. Just, try less brightness.

I just use Black Mate + Blue Submarine with Ubuntu-mono-light icons (plus some others specifically set on some launchers etc. borrowed from others icon themes) and this Shogo Maikishima Wallpaper. Also, install Workrave. GREAT SOFTWARE. Use Ctrl+ + for zoom. Do make use of the reader of Firefox and read this fresh thread and install the add-on I talk about there.
Also, you may have been diagnosed for eg. astigmatism but you wasn't for something else, like CVS. Read the following stuff and tell your (new) ophthalmologist about this stuff (if he/she doesn't care, go look for another).

and a rare news here:

For those who think you are safe because you see now, you are not. In 10 or 20 years the effects of the brightness and the white background on your retina will strike you. Are you needing more and more white or brightness over the time? That's the first symptom. Moreover, the distance for reading is something that no one takes into account...

You have been warned :computer: :eyeglasses: :mag: :wheelchair: :open_mouth:

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Thanks all of you for interesting info! I will look in to this later. Not now because my computer won’t restart. I must have f*d up royaly in my installation and I might have to delete all my settings and apps and start all over. :cry:(Then it certanly will be Black Mate for me )
In time I will get in to this thread again so I won’t mark in Solved just yet :slight_smile:

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Hi again! Since my last visit here I’m visually impaired on both eyes due to an operation that went south. Macula degeneration which makes it impossible to read or to do anything properly. I do have to use my computer frequently (although it takes me half an hour to tag an audiobook now). I find the Black Mate theme doesn’t help me now. I need a pitch black background and preferably yellow text. Has anybody seen such a theme? (Ubuntu Mate 16.04). I would really appreciate some help to make this happen as I’m not able to surf around and explore anymore, which I happily did before.
Hopefully :sunglasses:

I do not know a theme with yellow text, maybe you can get it from the theme-settings:
Right click on desktop -> change background->Appearence Preferences-> Theme ->Customize
Yellow text and black background

I did a search and found these links, hope this helps:

http://espeak.sourceforge.net/
eSpeak is a compact open source software speech synthesizer for English and other languages, for Linux and Windows

Sonar Linux distribution for visually impaired:
http://sonargnulinux.com/

Dictating rather than writing (works with chrome)
https://dictation.io/

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Thanks for your answer! I’ve tried changing >Appearence Preferences-> Theme ->Customize but the text color won’t change at all and the background remains dark grey.:pensive:
I don’t know if any speech application could help because I doubt it would work in all the applications I use. Searching the Web is easier using my smartphone with Firefox black theme.
About Sonar and also Vinux I’m interested but will need help. Anyone here from North of Sweden? :joy:
Anyway, >Appearence Preferences seems to have a glitch or what am I doing wrong?

for instance, with Shiny or TraditionalOKTest theme:
theme.mp4

Themes
Here are two themes with black background and yellow text (for menus), but on the file manager, the file name and folder remains white, I do not know how to edit this.
Extract the zip file in your home hidden folder .themes (CTRL H to show hidden files).

Try launching an appeal to the Ubuntu forum (the general one) that is perhaps frequented by a larger number of users than the Mate Community.

https://ubuntu-se.org/phpBB3/viewforum.php?f=17&sid=c4175591b6788a7b82587031f226433d