On 2021-05-09 at 21:08 +0200, Didier Spaier <[email protected]> wrote: > <off topic> > I always wonder why people do in a graphical environment things more > easily done > in a console. Maybe just because that's what they are used to? Granted, > there > are things that can't be done in console, but typing commands in a shell or > editing text files isn't among them, as far as I know. > <off topic>
There are two problems with the console: 1) Linux console is broken (and almost unmaintained). Its Unicode rendering is totally broken – it does not understand multi-column characters at all. Linux console does not support full Unicode fonts either, and is limited to 512 glyphs which is very little. Quite often I am in a situation where I need to start a graphical shell to be able to show something to a sighted person. Linux's keybaord support in the console is also very poor – no shifted arrow keys, and so forth. 2) Quite many things in a modern Linux system expect there to be a running desktop session. Notifications, for example require a windowing system. Some times power management features are only enabled if the user is logged into a graphical desktop. This could be fixed, in theory, but will not be because there are not enough blind developers who would implement and maintain the required changes (which may be huge). That's why I wish there was a graphical terminal emulator (and a window manager) which would be as accessible as the Linux console is right now. But, alas, there is no. Orca is slow, and the whole At-SPI2 protocol is flawed so that BRLTTY and Orca cannot make the graphical world sufficiently accessible in its current state. -- Aura _______________________________________________ This message was sent via the BRLTTY mailing list. To post a message, send an e-mail to: [email protected] For general information, go to: http://brltty.app/mailman/listinfo/brltty
