Re: [g-a-devel] some suggestions about Braille support in Gnopernicus

["John J. Boyer" <director chpi org>]

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
> 
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