[BRLTTY] Model name via API?

Samuel Thibault samuel.thibault at ens-lyon.org
Thu Oct 19 11:30:15 EDT 2006


Hi,

Mario Lang, le Thu 19 Oct 2006 17:12:37 +0200, a écrit :
> What do people think of the following idea:
> BrlAPI currently exports the driver ID and the driver name,
> which is sort of reduntant, since they will always match each other.

Yes.  We consider to normalize this at some point.  What would be nice
is to agree with suseblinux and libbraille people on "standard names"
that BrlAPI would use.

> Wouldnt it be nice to also export a field named something like "model name"
> which the drivers could set after successful identification of the particular
> display in use?

Yes, that may be useful indeed.

Samuel


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