[BRLTTY] brltty "keyboard braille device" support (and a few more things)

[Jason White]

On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 11:49:39AM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote:
 
> uinput and evdev, rather.  The idea is to open /dev/input/evdev* and
> call ioctl(EVIOCGRAB) on them, for getting all keypresses. They if the
> daemon doesn't want them, it can re-send them on /dev/input/uinput.

Would the plan then be to remove braille support from SBL, rewrite and enhance
its speech support, and possibly share common code/functionality with BRLTTY
where it makes sense to do so? That seems to be where this discussion is
headed - the development of a speech daemon (call it sbl) designed
cooperatively with BRLTTY.

My only remaining concern is that there are alaready several console-based
Linux speech projects, of which Speakup would have the largest user base, and
in deciding to start yet another one it would be important to consider whether
it would attract sufficient developer effort to be maintained over the long
term, and whether it would attract enough users to be worthwhile.