[BRLTTY] Re: gnome-braille

[Yannick PLASSIARD]

Hello Bill,
	As an opposite to your argumentation, the problem could be that 
any client written using BrlAPI woul claim to be into the BrlTty 
"namespace" i.e. SVN. 
Of course we already have Xbrlapi which is in t:is case, but I'm not 
sure this would be a good sollution.

But, of course, I totally agree with you: We have now several projects 
for Braille handling (brltty+brlapi, xbrlapi, gnome-braille) and several 
clients that will soon use the full potential of the API , as Orca for 
example. It would be good to make this community effort to meet all our 
needs into what we could name a "standard something".
After this would be decided, it would be good to create a placeholder 
for this kind of discutions, and t:en design all libraries 
restructurations depending on what was "adopted" or "decided" on this 
placeholder. The main "problem" here, is that this can take a very long 
time, and even never succeed.
--
Yannick 
On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 10:27:39AM +0000, Bill Haneman wrote:
> Jason White wrote:
> >...
> >>I'm not sure whether this should be integrated into BRLTTY: this is
> >>something that other applications may need (like cups for embossing
> >>text, for instance).
> >>    
> >
> >In that case I would suggest not calling it gnome-braille, among other 
> >reasons
> >because it might then be resisted by KDE, and the name wouldn't reflect the
> >generality of its intended sphere of application.
> >  
> I am 100% in agreement with the need to rename "gnome"-braille, if our 
> community agrees that it is useful.  I don't see a need for any 
> gnome-specific modules in it.
> 
> I would be happy to facilitate the restructuring of this library into 
> something that the community could use, but we would need to make it a 
> group effort to ensure that the library had an active developer 
> community going forward.  That's one reason why I would prefer to see it 
> hosted and enhanced as a client library in the "brltty" space.
> 
> Bill
> >If necessary there could also be a Gnome-specific module (gnome-braille) to
> >provide any Gnome-specific functionality.
> >
> >  
> 
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