[BRLTTY] BRLTTY 4.3, Ubuntu 12.04, Focus 40: Strange behaviour

[Michela Botti]

Hello Dave and all,
Scrolling one line up or down is one of the most frequently performed 
actions, so, imho, having a little redundancy on it could be a good idea. 
I personally use left rocker much more than left wheel, especially while 
editing text like source code, so I would like the default behaviour to be
restored at least for that rocker. Having the right rocker simulate the
physical cursor one-line scrolling seems a good choice, so I probably would
leave the binding for the right rocker unchanged in the new BRLTTY 
version.

All the best
Michela

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On Wed, 30 May 2012, Dave Mielke wrote:

> [quoted lines by Michela Botti on 2012/05/30 at 10:55 +0200]
>
>> My Focus 40 braille display immediately started to work during boot on Ubuntu
>> 12.04. However, I seemed not to be able to use the rocker bar to scroll one
>> line up or down: pressing the left rocker bar (top or bottom) had no effect at
>> all, while the right rocker bar moved the physical cursor up or down (which is
>> not what happens usually).
>
> That, inadequate as it may be, is actually what I'd expect. Let me explain.
>
> I'm assuming you were using an older release of brltty. At first, the default
> settings of the Focus were used. The default settings made the rockers
> equivalent to the wheels. In some release (I forget which one), we enabled a
> feature which lets the new keys function as new keys rather than as equivalents
> to old keys.
>
> At that time, which was early days for that style of Focus, it didn't have many
> brltty users. I asked for suggestions regarding what to bind the new keys to
> but didn't get a lot of feedback. That's why their bindings are so minimal.
>
> Now is a very good time to give us suggestions as brltty-4.4 is within a week
> or so of being released. Please let us know what you think.
>
> If there are any other Focus users with opinions on the matter, please also
> offer your suggestions.
>
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