[BRLTTY] attribute tracking, was re: Recommended live distribution
Nicolas Pitre
nico at fluxnic.net
Wed Sep 19 19:07:00 EDT 2012
On Wed, 19 Sep 2012, S. Massy wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 02:04:28PM -0400, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> > On Wed, 19 Sep 2012, Dave Mielke wrote:
> > > I think I know what you mean by profiles - changing brltty's settings based on
> > > the current foreground probram - but I'm not sure how detecting which program
> > > is currently in the foreground is best done, especially given screen-managed
> > > windows, ssh sessions, etc.
> >
> > Let's answer this last question first. The best approach would probably
> > involve screen content signature. So, given a set of application profile
> > specifications, the first item in each profile would describe some
> > screen content that has to match for the profile to be activated. That
> > match would need to be reconfirmed whenever the screen content changes,
> > and if the match fails then the search for another profile would happen.
> I wonder what would be some reasonable use-cases for such "profiles".
> Can't come up with a whole lot off the top of my head. This is the kind
> of feature more useful for GUIs than consoles usually.
Heh. That's probably why BRLTTY has been around for 16 years now
without that feature.
Nicolas
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