Re: [orca-list] improving dbr daisy book reader
- From: Rob Whyte <fudge thefudge net>
- To: orca-list <orca-list gnome org>
- Subject: Re: [orca-list] improving dbr daisy book reader
- Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2014 18:12:03 +1000
Correction,
It is not Javido that has recently had a baby.
Sometimes I get my people confused :)
How ever the other statements are all true.
Thanks
Rob
On 15/07/14 18:10, Rob Whyte wrote:
I think you will find that javido is still active but not in DBR at
the moment.
Currently his work and new baby take most of his time up I believe.
DBR next will get GKT3 support, beyond that I suggest bug reports or
pop on IRC and talk to him personally.
Thanks
Rob Whyte
On 15/07/14 16:18, kendell clark wrote:
hi all
I've been after a few people to write a daisy player for linux, but
no one seems in any great hurry to do it, so I'm
planning to write one myself. There's an old sourcefforge project,
http://dbr.sourceforge.net, which does some of the
work for me. There are a couple of problems and a few questions I
have. I'm writing this for the entire linux community
I have no interest in porting it for windows. The code for most of
the application is written in python, which I can
learn. The problem is, the bulk of the code is written in spanish,
which I don't speak, lol. Is there any program I can
run the files through to get at least a pseudo translation in english
so I can start hacking on it? If not, is there
anyone who would be willing to help me? The only other daisy reader I
have any experience with is fs reader for windows,
so I'm not sure of the features most blind people would expect. Me,
personally I'd like the application to open with the
last book I had open, preferably where I left off, if possible. I'd
also like to be able to press a keyboard shortcut to
open a list box of all the books I have stored on the computer.
There's a menu item in the gui for this but it doesn't
work yet. There are also controlls for previous and next chapter,
paragraph, page, etc which heavily depend on the
markup that the book has. I've tested a couple of daisy books and it
seems to work ok, but if the markup is wrong it'll
loop. What features would you guys find useful? it has bookmarks,
play controlls, and a menu of total duration, etc. It
does not support text only books yet, I'm going to need to add this
myself. Daisy 3.0, the newest version of the
standard, is not supported at all, so I'll need to add this as well.
Unless there's a major change in legal policy, I
probably won't be supporting rfb&d and/or nls dtb books, due to their
restrictive licenses. The app is fully accessible,
as far as it goes. Any help would be extremely welcome, including
from teh original devs of the project. IT's a long
process that would probably take me quite a while to complete. I also
have a copy of the daisy 3 standard if anyone
needs it. Any discussion of features etc should probably be done on
the orca list, but any offers of help, or private
messages should go to me personally, so we don't flood the list with
off topic posts.
I'll also be hanging out on the orca chat room on gnome.org, as
well as talking arch if anyone wants to drop in
there.
I primarily use arch linux, but if this ever gets off the ground I
plan to support other distros, vinux, fedora, etc.
Thanks
Kendell clark
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