[BRLTTY] [PATCH] add a verbose space speech setting

Nicolas Pitre nico at fluxnic.net
Fri May 18 21:35:07 EDT 2012


On Fri, 18 May 2012, Dave Mielke wrote:

> [quoted lines by Dave Mielke on 2012/05/18 at 19:29 -0400]
> 
> >Actually, it wouldn't be hard to do at all. Probably only three or four lines 
> >of code to do it.  :-)

Of course. :-)  You know that code better than anyone else.

> >I think, though, that having non-text show up on the 
> >left when scrolling up/down would actually probably throw a lot of users for a 
> >bit of a loop. I don't think that I myself would like it very much, either. Of 
> >course, it could just be a matter of getting used to - who knows.

This is not necessarily a bad thing.  Te top entry is special in the 
sense that it moves you back.  So by having it different you are less 
likely to think it's just another setting.

> Here's the patch (attached as brltty-submenu-close.patch). Jusgt two changed 
> lines and one new line. The colon is still there as it's hard-coded. If this 
> way is really better then I'll commit the patch and deal with the colon. 
> Please, everyone, let me know what you think.

I do like it better that way.  I think it is more intuitive.
But I'm not strongly attached to it either if people object.


Nicolas


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