Re: Bug#359062: debian-installer: bterm is not (yet) accessible for brltty

[Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>]

Joey Hess, le Tue 28 Mar 2006 15:11:26 -0500, a écrit :
> Joey Hess wrote:
> > Samuel Thibault wrote:
> > > I'm not saying that. I'm seeing that debian-installer uses bterm by
> > > default now.
> > 
> > d-i uses bterm, or writes raw data to a serial port, or to the console,
> > or it uses GTK. d-i is frontend independant and it would be trivial to
> > make it dump well-formatted text to bterm, which is what I've been
>                                    ^^^^^^^^^
> 				   er, to brltty

Without any user intervention other that having plugged his braille
device? (or put some parameters on the kernel command line, for serial
devices). _That's_ the point.

And remember that the blind person is not alone in front of the machine,
so that you need to have some synchronization between what is displayed
on the screen and on the braille device. Is it possible to run several
synchronized front-ends? Having brltty just read what bterm displays is
really a fine solution for this.

(Yes, I considered writing a brltty-oriented front-end for d-i, but the
above point takes precedence)

Regards,
Samuel