Re: Blinking Cursor, Help in Gnopernicus Braille, etc.

[Nick Gawronski <nick nickgawronski com>]

Hi, Will this patch be added to the main gnopernicus cvs version?  It 
would really be helpful.  bye On Mon, 26 May 2003, John J. Boyer wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> With the patch and driver from Mario Gnopernicus has suddenly become 
> useful for a lot of people who use braille. i have noticed two problems, 
> and I have some other concerns.
> 
> 1. The cursor can be set to underline, but it doesn't blink. This is a 
> very useful feature for finding it and for distinguishing it from a normal 
> underline. Is there a setting that would make it blink?
> 
> 2. Looking at the make output, it seems that there is help frombrlmonitor 
> but not for braille itself. How could this be added?
> 
> 3. Is there help that lists the keys for keyboard navigation?
> 
> 4. What is the best way to go about making changes to Gnopernicus? I filed 
> a bug about support for the ALVA320. That is noow moot with Mario's 
> driver. However, I would like to see the other things that I have listed 
> added, and someone with experience has to integrate the driver into 
> gnopernicus. The HACKING file in the CVS version of Gnopernicus says that 
> "build sheriff changes are welcome". How does one go about using this 
> procedure?
> 
> Of course, I am willing to work on the changes myself, but I don't have 
> the experience to integrate the driver into the next release of 
> Gnopernicus.
> 
> Thanks,
> John
> 
> 
> 

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