[BRLTTY] Linux console hacking (was: Re: Footsteps towards better accessibility in Linux)

[Samuel Thibault]

Nicolas Pitre, le lun. 30 mars 2026 10:18:50 -0400, a ecrit:
> On Mon, 30 Mar 2026, Sébastien Hinderer wrote:
> 
> > Thank you Nicolas, I am very impressed.
> > 
> > My only feedback would be about cursor routing, which is a topic Samuel
> > and I have been discussing off-line a few weeks ago.
> > 
> > My understanding is that the way it's currently done is because we
> > cannot currently do better, but I think if we could we should.
> > 
> > More concretely, if kmscon supports input from a mouse, then I'd suggest
> > that cursor routing events are somehow translated to mouse clicks. In
> > terms of your doocuemnt I assume this would mean adding one more type of
> > events that BRLTTY could inject?
> 
> I think mouse clicks and cursor routing should remain separate. They 
> sometimes have the same effect (like within a text editor) but often 
> they're different.
> 
> The idea is for BRLTTY to tell the terminal: "I want a mouse click event 
> here" and use routing keys for indicating the location through a 
> different key binding than cursor routing. It is then up to you to use 
> the method that provides best results in a given context.

The problem is that it would need applications to be extended to support
routing. Leveraging their existing support for mouse clicks would be
very effective to get things working.

Samuel