Samuel Thibault <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Mario Lang, le Mon 01 Dec 2008 00:19:39 +0100, a écrit : >> P.S.: Actually, it could be a little bit easier to extend the existing >> "Screen" >> screen driver in BRLTTY or implement a new screen driver for communicating >> with >> bogl-term and friends. > > Actually, I had already implemented something like this.
I also have some bits of code already :-) > It was considered "ugly" by the debian-boot people to expose things > via shared memory. What did they propose as an alternative? I think simply calling something ugly without realizing how important it is isn't really constructive. After all, /dev/vcs is basically the same. To me, a shm segment with an ID where the virtual terminal number is encoded would be pretty easy to implement, and straightforward. > I still think it would be a good thing to implement something like > this, maybe a bit more standardized, so that *fbterm programs could > provide it and brltty/sbl/brass/etc. Yes, my plan would even be to implement it inside the Linux screen driver (since these terminal emulators are linux-dependant anyway) and fallback to checking if some program provides the shm segment whenever we see a value unequal to KD_TEXT? > could use it, and could even be used on other OSes. Maybe. I still think fallback should be automatic, we shouldn't be forced to restart BRLTTY to switch screen drivers. > Ideally there should be a way to insert unicode characters as well. Right now, I'd be happy to see anything in such terminals :-) > Now, AT-SPI people would say "just implement the AT-SPI interface!" I'm > not sure we really want that. I definitely think thats the wrong way to go, because of the overhead involved. This forces AT-SPI into text-mode world. Besides, its surely much harder to implement without any apparent gain. Besides, then, someone might call it ugly because of its CORBA dependency. -- CYa, ⡍⠁⠗⠊⠕ | Debian Developer <URL:http://debian.org/> .''`. | Get my public key via finger mlang/[EMAIL PROTECTED] : :' : | 1024D/7FC1A0854909BCCDBE6C102DDFFC022A6B113E44 `. `' `- <URL:http://delysid.org/> <URL:http://www.staff.tugraz.at/mlang/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
