[BRLTTY] Fedora dracut module

[Jaroslav Skarvada]

----- Original Message -----
> [quoted lines by Jaroslav Skarvada on 2018/06/04 at 04:24 -0400]
> 
> >OK, I will add them all as boot command line parameters,
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> >syntax: brltty.lower_case_parameter_without_brltty_prefix, e.g. for
> >BRLTTY_ATTRIBUTES_TABLE the following boot parameter will work:
> >brltty.attributes_table
> >
> >I will use this syntax to be consistent with other kernel and dracut
> >parameters
> 
> Yes, that makes sense. Do you see any benefit in brltty looking for them
> rather
> than hard-coding the list externally?
>
I am not sure whether there is any real benefit, but having the possibility
to override the hardcoded settings could be handy. Especially if the
implementation is easy.
  
> >> I don't see brltty-lsinc being used (yet) to support brltty.conf and table
> >> include statements. Is this something you'd be adding, or would it be
> >> something
> >> that you'd like me to look into adding?
> >> 
> >Initially, we didn't add it. It could be added later. Feel free to provide
> >patch.
> 
> It's jsut that include is used a lot. For example, let's consider text
> tables.
> Since our 26-letter alphabet is quite common, it's defined in one place and
> included in many places.
>
It seems the 'brltty -evl7' already shows the includes and the current code
already includes them into initramfs. Is there anything we missed?
 
> ># dnf install brltty-dracut
> 
> So it's already a package. That's nice. I guess it's in an experimental
> repository, though, since dnf install, here, isn't finding it. Do I need to
> enable something?
>
It's in Fedora 28 updates-testing repository. If you have an older Fedora,
e.g. 27, I can built it for you.
 
> >On the GDM login screen just hit 'Alt + Super + S' and ORCA will be started,
> >it's started with speech and Braille enabled. For Braille to work brltty
> >service has to be run.
> 
> You'll see from a later message that I finally did figure that out. It's
> clearly described, of course, but there are so many other bits of advice out
> there that it took me a long time and lots of mistakes to get there. If that
> was my experience then I imagine that it's also been the experience of many
> other less experienced users. I wonder if there's a way to make it much
> easier
> to discover.
>
There has been 'Accessibility guide':
https://docs-old.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/14/html-single/Accessibility_Guide/index.html

But it seems to be unmaintained for a while. I will ping documentation
team what's their plan about it

Jaroslav