Hello, I prepare the next Slint version http://slint.fr On that occasion I will: _ upgrade brltty from 4.4 to 4.5, _ make the installer speak with speakup, espeakup and espeak, _ make the window manager and desktops speak with Orca whenever possible. Orca and deps will be installed if speech is used during installation, else available as packages.
This leads to following questions. Let me know if some would better be asked elsewhere. 1) Compiling brltty 5.5 with speech-dispatcher installed, I had to help configure find the speech-dispatcher headers with: CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/include -I/usr/include/speech-dispatcher" No big deal, but maybe this can be avoided modifying some file used for configuration (sorry I am a complete beginner wrt autotools, so I can just ask). 2) In the source archive there is a file Autostart/Udev/brltty-wrapper including this comment: # This script must be installed in the udev programs directory: /usr/lib/udev/ I did that but don't really understand this script's purpose so am not sure why I need it. Context: Slackware and its derivatives do not use systemd, and include eudev instead of udev. Please shed some light here, knowing that we already ship the rules to start the daemon when a terminal is connected through USB. 3) Orca has liblouis as optional dependency and if I understand well this allows Orca to send contracted Braille to a Braille terminal. Is that right? If yes, is it widely used? I am wondering if I should provide a liblouis package and link Orca to that. 4) In the above described context, do I need to ship brlAPI? so far I target end users rather that developers, so I am considering not installing it by default, but providing it as a package. What do you think? Is it needed beyond developing new drivers or such use cases? Take care, Didier _______________________________________________ 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.com/mailman/listinfo/brltty
