Re: [Grml] Some features may be dropped from GNU Screen in the future (including braille support)
Mario Lang <[email protected]>
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Samuel Thibault <[email protected]> writes: > Hello, > > I'd like to emphasize that the braille feature which is discussed about > here is *not* general braille access through brltty. > > What is being discussed is the tiny braille support embedded in the > screen package, which only supports a few TeleSensory and TSI hardware > in a quite basic way, and which has not been developped or maintained > for years. There is little wonder screen maintainers would rather > remove that part of the code: it is unmaintained, and brltty can already > access screen content another way, and is developped, maintained etc. I agree. I have found native screen support for braille displays a few years ago basically by accident during a code browse. While it might historically be interesting that the GNU screen package directly support(s|ed) braille displays, I don't think many (if any) people actually use that. At least on Linux, BRLTTY is superior regarding its functionality and driver support, and everyone knows that. I am not sure about other operating system kernels, but even if we considered *BSDs whigh might be interested in such a feature natively provided by GNU screen, there is virtually no support for current hardware models in GNU screen. So dropping that part of the code seems like a sensible thing to do. The alternative would be to improve it *a lot*. -- CYa, ⡍⠁⠗⠊⠕ | Debian Developer <URL:http://debian.org/> .''`. | Get my public key via finger mlang/[email protected] : :' : | 1024D/7FC1A0854909BCCDBE6C102DDFFC022A6B113E44 `. `' `- <URL:http://delysid.org/> <URL:http://www.staff.tugraz.at/mlang/>
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