Hello, Unix was born in age of mainframes, where users logged in through terminals. Linux supports this philosophy and provides several virtual terminals on single console. When I first heard of BRLTTY, I thought it was such a terminal emulator, relying on system tools in regards of coupling itself to another terminal, and if a braille display was not capable of inputting characters or other input related actions, BRLTTY just "borrows" console keyboard for doing this. And if the system runs X, a screenreader just detects presence of BRLTTY and interacts with it as with a text console, not worrying about terminal capabilities.
But BRLTTY reminds me more of braille drivers present in MS-DOS, tightly coupled with single screen and being stronlgy dependent on it. UNIX (and Linux) was about single-purpose tools, so BRLTTY should just present itself as TTY for underlying OS and depend on other system tools for other tasks not directly related to Braille device. I am afraid I didn't express myself as exactly as I would like, but my English is still quite simple. Tomas Valusek _______________________________________________ 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://mielke.cc/mailman/listinfo/brltty
