Kenny, I agree with you completely. It is bong past time that Gnopernicus started using the brlapi by default.
John On Sat, Apr 09, 2005 at 04:04:48AM -0500, Kenny Hitt wrote: > Hi. > > I thought I would post some ideas I have about the Braille support in > Gnopernicus. I don't know how difficult they would be to impliment, but > I thought I would post them and see the response. > > I'm sure this will probably be the most difficult. > Rewrite Gnopernicus so it uses BRLAPI for all braille displays. Since > Baum displays are supported by Brltty, this change shouldn't cost access > to any device. > Gnome accessibility still has some problems that require text > console access for complete productivity, so braille users will likely > already be running Brltty. Another possible benifit of this change > would be the braille preferences dialog would become much less > confusing. Instead of a table of Gnopernicus commands and a list of > Baum specific keys, you would have a table of Gnopernicus commands and a > list of Brltty commands. You can then map a Brltty command to a > Gnopernicus command without worrying about display specific keys. > > If that isn't possible for some reason,is it possible to > change the keys sent to Gnopernicus by ttybrl.c so it sends > multiple keys to Gnopernicus. Instead of sending > DK00, it would send DK00DK01, DK01DK01, DK02DK01, etc. > This would allow for more possible Gnopernicus functions to be > available from the display. > > Kenny > > _______________________________________________ > Gnome-accessibility-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-devel > -- John J. boyer; Executive Director, Chief Software Developer Computers to Help People, Inc. www.chpi.org 6033 Monona Drive, suite 205; Madison, WI 53716 _______________________________________________ Gnome-accessibility-devel mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-devel
