Re: BRLTTY integration with Gnopernicus [was Re: Festival server]

[Bill Haneman <bill haneman sun com>]

On Thu, 2002-11-14 at 21:54, John J. Boyer wrote:
> Peter and Dave,
> I'll be happy to help in the integration of Brltty and Gnopernicus. The 
> question that is uppermost in my mind right now is whether Gnopernicus can 
> accept input from a braille display, for example, from the cursor-routing 
> buttons or from a keyboard emulator.
> Are the Baum people on this list or on the gnome-accessibility-devel list. 

I believe a number of BAUM folks are on the latter.
The traffic comes in cycles, it has been very busy in the past.

Be warned however that BAUM are preoccupied with feature/schedule issues
at the moment so they may take a little while to reply in some cases.

My impression is that the gnopernicus braille display support does allow
input of various kinds; I know that position sensors are already
working, I am not sure about the cursor routing buttons.  Anyhow the API
is clearly capable of supporting some degree of bidirectionality.

> I'm on both, but i don't see much activity on the latter.

Thanks and best regards,

-Bill

> Thanks.
> John
>  On Thu, 14 Nov 
> 2002, Peter Korn wrote:
> 
> > Hi Dave,
> > 
> > Welcome to the GNOME Accessibility community!
> > 
> > > I'm the maintainer of BRLTTY [http://mielke.cc/brltty/], and am 
> > > interested in implementing a bridge between BRLTTY and Gnopernicus so 
> > > that BRLTTY users would gain access to the X environment and also so that 
> > > Gnopernicus would gain access to all of the displays which we support. Is 
> > > this list the best forum within which to pursue this goal? If not, what
> > > might that "best forum" be? Thanks.
> > 
> > This is a good place.  Another place is the GNOME Accessibility development
> > list: <gnome-accessibility-devel gnome org>.  In the GNOME world, there are
> > typically two mailing lists for any given topic: the "-devel" mailing list
> > is for folks creating a given technology, and the "-list" mailing list is
> > for the folks using a given technology.  Thus someone who is using the
> > "GTK+" library to write applications would be interested in the 'gtk-devel'
> > mailing list.
> > 
> > You'll probably want to connect with the developers/maintainers of
> > Gnopernicus at BAUM (who are on that mailing list), including: Draghi
> > Puterity <mp baum de> and Adi Drascal <ad baum ro>.  Looking at the source
> > code (see /cvs/gnome/gnopernicus/braille/libbrl in cvs.gnome.org), Adi is
> > the author of virtually all of the Gnopernicus Braille support.
> > 
> > 
> > Regards,
> > 
> > Peter Korn
> > Sun Accessibility team
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