On 22.09.2009 at 14:58:10 Samuel Thibault <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello, > > Yet another person on the NVDA list wanted to re-implement a driver for > some braille device because he doesn't want to have to run both brltty > and nvda at the same time. > > Of course, it's a better thing to use the brlapi facility as this > permits to run several readers, dedicated applications, etc. but for > the casual user this seems superfluous considering the difficulty of > installing both brltty and nvda (yes, I believe we got to a very simple > way to achieve that, but two applications is still too much for casual > users). > The problem here, I think, is, that Windows users are not familiar with Brltty, and its concept to run as a service, allowing to use several applications with it. They want to stick to the concept, known from their screen readers, which come with everything needed, brail drivers included. > As a result, I yet more and more believe that brltty should export its > drivers through a library too, even with an simple interface similar > to libbrlapi/libbraille. Else I fear dispersion of hardware support > efforts. > What would be the difference? In my understanding, one has only to copy/install a driver for only one display, looking like "libalva.so" or "libht.so" (ht = Handytech). Am I right? > What do people think? > If this makes the use of Brltty easier for Windows users, we should think about it, since I don't believe that too many companies will develope special drivers for NVDA. Hermann _______________________________________________ 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
