[BRLTTY] braille doesn't work at all under Ubuntu 8.04.1
Dave Mielke
dave at mielke.cc
Mon Sep 8 08:23:19 EDT 2008
[quoted lines by Mario Lang on 2008/09/08 at 13:54 +0200]
>Luke, this is probably misleading to the ordinary user, because
>basically all the USB connected braille devices which use
>a USB to serial adaptor do so internally. So the user usually
>has no idea that his device uses a USB to serial adaptor, to the
>user, its just a USB display. This is also how it is advertised by
>manufacturers or resellers. The fact that a USB to serial adaptor is
>used internally is a technical detail usually only known by support
>staff or similar.
I don't htink that's what he meant. I think he meant an external USB-serial
adapter. That being said, I think the real problem is that the real problem is
the text displayed by the configuration script. There are at least two.
It shouldn't say to select U for USB when it really means USB-serial. That may
make sense to an impementor but it's not at all intuitive to a user.
Also, selecting Exit when direct USB is being used isn't intuitive either to a
regular user. How does he know that that means to use brltty's default, and,
even if he does, why should he be expected to know what brltty's default is? If
I try to put myself in the place of a really basic user I'd probably guess that
Exit means to cancel the braille setup.
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