Re: speakup todo?

[Glenn <glennervin@cableone.net>]

That is the kind of thinking that will keep Linux in the shadows.
I teach people how to use screenreaders, and people have a hard enough time 
switching from the mouse to all these keyboard commands.
When people begrudgingly learn JFW keyboard mappings to some degree, do you 
think they will willing go out to learn different key mappings?
Only the techie types do that.
Glenn

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Littlefield, Tyler" <tyler@tysdomain.com>
To: "Glenn" <glennervin@gmail.com>; "Speakup is a screen review system for 
Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Sunday, September 16, 2012 3:39 PM
Subject: Re: speakup todo?


I'm not really to worried about JFW key mappings honestly. First it's
sort of weird, but mainly if they can't get used to using different
keys, they're never going to live on Linux, at least not in the cli.
On 9/16/2012 2:34 PM, Glenn wrote:
> The big one for SpeakUp would be for it to have the option to switch to 
> JFW
> key mappings.
> This will allow many people to switch to Linux easily.
> Microsoft did this with MS Word, allowing people to use Word Perfect key
> mappings.
> I think this is the only way Linux will ever become any more popular to
> screenreader users.
> Glenn
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Littlefield, Tyler" <tyler@tysdomain.com>
> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." 
> <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Sunday, September 16, 2012 1:17 PM
> Subject: speakup todo?
>
>
> Hello all:
> I'm trying to transfer, and applying for scholarships and all that I'd
> like to be able to make some contributions to projects that I can note.
> I'm interested in learning more about kernel programming, and I figured
> I'd start by working on something I use almost daily. I'm curious then
> if there's some sort of todo or improvements speakup could have to it.
> I'd also be curious if someone has thought about moving it to
> userspace--as far as I know, the only thing that we really need the
> kernel for would be hardware speech (and since serial ports are dying
> out that could be a dead point), and accessing the console directly. How
> easy would it be then, to have speakup run in userspace, but access a
> smaller cut-down version of itself in the kernel to provide the access
> to the console we need?
> We could use sequence files and access the console through /proc. It
> could return a file of 2-byte chars, which I believe is how it works
> now--one byte is the color, and the other byte is the ascii value. The
> sequence file would just iterate over the console's lines. I'm also
> curious how we'd handle something like key presses like caps+u to move
> up a line etc.
>
> If I'm way off here, I'd still like to help out if possible; is there a
> todo list around, or stuff people would like to see done? If there are
> people willing to answer questions from time to time in terms of the
> kernel programming, since that's something I've not done before, I'm
> game to start coding.
>
> Another question is then, how do people catch panics? Since I'm not
> quite cool enough to write code that just works, I'm sure I'll be
> dealing with panics, but I can't see them on the console and usually
> it's when speakup goes boom anyway.
>


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