On Wed, 19 Sep 2012, S. Massy wrote: > On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 02:04:28PM -0400, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > > On Wed, 19 Sep 2012, Dave Mielke wrote: > > > I think I know what you mean by profiles - changing brltty's settings > > > based on > > > the current foreground probram - but I'm not sure how detecting which > > > program > > > is currently in the foreground is best done, especially given > > > screen-managed > > > windows, ssh sessions, etc. > > > > Let's answer this last question first. The best approach would probably > > involve screen content signature. So, given a set of application profile > > specifications, the first item in each profile would describe some > > screen content that has to match for the profile to be activated. That > > match would need to be reconfirmed whenever the screen content changes, > > and if the match fails then the search for another profile would happen. > I wonder what would be some reasonable use-cases for such "profiles". > Can't come up with a whole lot off the top of my head. This is the kind > of feature more useful for GUIs than consoles usually.
Heh. That's probably why BRLTTY has been around for 16 years now without that feature. Nicolas _______________________________________________ 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
