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

[Kenny Hitt <kenny hittsjunk net>]

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