[BRLTTY] How to programmatically do a blinking cursor and/or blinking cells?

[Samuel Thibault]

Hi,

Sébastien Hinderer, le Mon 11 Dec 2006 14:35:20 +0100, a écrit :
> However, it is true that if blinking would be provided by BrlAPI, this
> would let the user paramaterize the blinking speed in a way that would
> remain coherent from client to client, and in brltty.

That said, some clients may want to have various blinking speeds, for
differentiating several cases, etc.  So it's not obvious whether putting
it in BrlAPI is really ``what is right''.

> Also, we thought about a two-layers approach to providing braille
> display services. We talked about starting a second library, comparable
> to toolkits for X, which could integrate those higher-lever services
> like blinking, handling multi-window texts. Nothing has b developed so
> far, and we will warmly welcome any suggestion concerning the design and
> functionalities that wouldbe the most useful tothe community.

Of course, this should probably be developped jointly with
gnome-braille.

Samuel