[BRLTTY] Default for key tables - OFF or ON

[Mario Lang]

Dave Mielke <dave at mielke.cc> writes:

>>> Another approach would be a help viewer for the command-line.
>>
>>I second that.  A keybinding that shows the help on the braille display
>>doesn't help a sighted person helping the blind person using the braille
>>device.
>
> But how well will that work in an installer environment?

Well, a installer could present stdout of that tool to the
user in any way it wanted to.  i.e., in debian-installer, the
brltty-udeb package could present a debconf dialog showing the help
for the currently connected display.  This would only be done if a display
is connected.  We'll have to add BrlAPI into the installer package mix,
but since there are plans to integrate orca into the graphical
installer, we'll have to do this at some point anyway.

> Although, how well does keyboard interception work in an installer
> environment as well?

I am not sure keyboard interception would help here.  If a user
doesn't know the key to press to get help, they wont know it
regardless if they press it on the keyboard or the braille display.
While I realize there is a small difference due to displays having
very different keyboard layouts, I still think we are trying
to solve a non-issue here.  We could, for absolute clarity,
maintain a webpage on mielke.cc/brltty which lists the help key
combinations for all supported display types.
But I am not sure this is really going to help.
I mean, its not like rocket science to figure this stuff out if you really want
to.  Lets see, lets pretend I have no svn checkout of brltty, and
want to know about the Alva BC640 key mappings.  Hmm:
http://mielke.cc/svn/main/brltty/Drivers/Braille/Alva/help2.txt
Voila, there we go.  Well, I guessed the websvn URL, and google hasn't
found it yet.
Maybe we could just create an index which links all these help files?

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