Package: console-setup Version: 1.55 Severity: normal Hello,
Squeeze brings an accessibility regression: with some setups (like kms), the framebuffer console is enabled by default, which thus brings a high-resolution video mode, thus a screen larger than 80 columns. This is a problem for braille users: braille displays are quite often 40 cells wide, thus exactly half the screen width. Having to cope with some more text is a pain. There are also other braille display sizes, like 64, 88, etc. Also, things like 50 lines is not necessarily convenient, depending on users. A nice way to fix the regression and actually provide better support for various display sizes would be to have console-setup tune the screen size according to user's decision, thanks to a combination of proper font size and call to stty rows/cols. The way I see this is to add SCREEN_WIDTH and SCREEN_HEIGHT to /etc/default/console-setup (unset by default): - if only FONTSIZE is set, just load the font and be fine with it. - if FONTSIZE is set as well as SCREEN_WIDTH/HEIGHT, load the specified font, and call stty cols $SCREEN_WIDTH rows $SCREEN_HEIGHT to fix the screen size. - if FONTSIZE is not set but SCREEN_WIDTH/HEIGHT is, look for a font size that is almost big enough to get only the desired width and height. Calling stty cols $SCREEN_WIDTH rows $SCREEN_HEIGHT then helps to get rid of the few extra columns and rows. We could even imagine to rasterize a vector font on the fly for very big sizes. Of course, since Squeeze is frozen, we should probably not care about the 3rd case for now. I however believe that handling the second case would permit to fix the regression nicely and easily enough without bringing any other potential regressions. What do you think? Samuel -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.35 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages console-setup depends on: ii console-terminus 4.30-2 Fixed-width fonts for fast reading ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.35 Debian configuration management sy ii keyboard-configuration 1.55 system-wide keyboard preferences ii xkb-data 1.8-1 X Keyboard Extension (XKB) configu Versions of packages console-setup recommends: ii kbd 1.15.2-1 Linux console font and keytable ut Versions of packages console-setup suggests: ii locales 2.11.2-2 Embedded GNU C Library: National L ii locales-all [locales] 2.11.2-2 Embedded GNU C Library: Precompile ii lsb-base 3.2-23.1 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip -- debconf information: * console-setup/variant: France * console-setup/codeset47: # Latin1 and Latin5 - western Europe and Turkic languages console-setup/unsupported_options: true console-setup/ctrl_alt_bksp: true console-setup/modelcode: geniuskb19e console-setup/use_system_font: console-setup/fontsize: 8 * console-setup/unsupported_layout: true console-setup/layoutcode: fr,brai debian-installer/console-setup/title: console-setup/codesetcode: Lat15 console-setup/altgr: The default for the keyboard layout * console-setup/ttys: /dev/tty[1-6] * console-setup/codeset: # Latin1 and Latin5 - western Europe and Turkic languages console-setup/toggle: Alt+Caps Lock * console-setup/fontface: VGA * console-setup/fontsize-text: 8 console-setup/compose: Right Logo key debian-installer/console-setup-udeb/title: console-setup/other: console-setup/store_defaults_in_debconf_db: true console-setup/switch: No temporary switch * console-setup/unsupported_config_layout: true * console-setup/charmap: UTF-8 * console-setup/fontface47: VGA * console-setup/fontsize-text47: 8 * console-setup/optionscode: grp:alt_caps_toggle,compose:rwin,nbsp:level3n,terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp console-setup/unsupported_config_options: true * console-setup/charmap47: UTF-8 * console-setup/layout: France console-setup/variantcode: oss, * console-setup/model: Genius KB-19e NB console-setup/fontsize-fb: 8 * console-setup/fontsize-fb47: 8 -- Samuel Thibault <samuel.thiba...@fnac.net> "...Unix, MS-DOS, and Windows NT (also known as the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly)." (By Matt Welsh) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-accessibility-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100829190805.ga3...@const.famille.thibault.fr
