[BRLTTY] emulated keyboard and api clients?

[Dave Mielke]

[quoted lines by Mario Lang on 2006/04/29 at 13:17 +0200]

>Yes, please apply this, the current default behaviour is rather problematic, if
>not to say broken.  If the user only uses the external keyboard (which
>is quite likely), and switches to the X console where
>gnopernicus is running with BRLTTY configured as a braille backend,
>the keyboard suddenly stops working, and you are not able to switch
>back to the text console anymore.  This means to fix this, *every* BrlAPI
>client would need to re-implement the uinput haindling, which is rather
>silly and just not going to happen.

My opinion is that this is a convincing argument. I'll wait a day or so just to
be sure that other interested people have had an opportunity to respond. If I
don't hear anything to the contrary, I'll apply the patch then.

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