From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from cpe-24-221-98-238.az.sprintbbd.net ([24.221.98.238] helo=lnx1.holmesgrown.com) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19jOVM-0003sX-00 for ; Sun, 03 Aug 2003 15:26:57 -0400 Received: from lnx3.holmesgrown.com ([192.168.1.5] ident=mail) by lnx1.holmesgrown.com with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19jOUp-0001qI-Tm for speakup@braille.uwo.ca; Sun, 03 Aug 2003 12:26:23 -0700 Received: from steve by lnx3.holmesgrown.com with local (Exim 4.20) id 19jOUu-00002q-EZ for speakup@braille.uwo.ca; Sun, 03 Aug 2003 12:26:28 -0700 Date: Sun, 3 Aug 2003 12:26:28 -0700 From: Steve Holmes To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca Subject: Re: cvs speakup and curser tracking Message-ID: <20030803192627.GA165@lnx3.holmesgrown.com> Mail-Followup-To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca References: <20030803051820.GA31715@dalek.ddts.net> <20030803141200.GA9699@tomass.dyndns.org> <20030803152514.GB4608@rednote.net> <20030803163112.GA10070@tomass.dyndns.org> <20030803170836.GD4608@rednote.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030803170836.GD4608@rednote.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca Errors-To: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Yes and since many of Speakup's options are in /proc/speakup, it would be interesting to save the window definition and options in there as well and just use wrapper scripts to preload /proc/speakup/window... with appropriate values for a given app. Sounds kinda like the way we did things with ScreenTalk and Prokey. Anyone remember back that far?:) Quite a bit of power there dispite the brain dead OS we were using back then. On Sun, Aug 03, 2003 at 01:08:37PM -0400, Janina Sajka wrote: > Very cool. I knew I should have asked about this sooner! > > Also, like the silence Window that I hadn't yet noticed in Speakup CVS. > However, I wonder if it will need to be much more sophisticated before > it's very useful? For example, I doubt that defining a particular region > as silent only makes sense in particular screens of particular > applications--not across consoles and all applications, for example. > Also, I would expect that being able to specify multiple regions for all > kinds of rule based behavior would be the eventual goal, e.g. silent in > some apps, auto spoken on certain screens of other apps, chained in a > particular order for yet other apps, etc. -- Make sure your E-mail can be read by everyone! http://www.betips.net/etc/evilmail.html