Re: [Grml] Some features may be dropped from GNU Screen in the future (including braille support)

2014-04-04 Thread Mario Lang
Samuel Thibault 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 T

Re: [Grml] Some features may be dropped from GNU Screen in the future (including braille support)

2014-04-03 Thread Samuel Thibault
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

Re: [Grml] Some features may be dropped from GNU Screen in the future (including braille support)

2014-04-03 Thread Jason White
Samuel Thibault wrote: > 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 wo

Re: [Grml] Some features may be dropped from GNU Screen in the future (including braille support)

2014-04-02 Thread John G. Heim
I don't think there is any reason to remove braille support from grml. I've been testing it every release up to the latest and reporting the results on the grml list. I know a version just came out a few weeks ago and I haven't tested it. It's just that I happen to be on vacation. They had a rea

Re: Some features may be dropped from GNU Screen in the future (including braille support)

2014-04-02 Thread Jason White
Don Raikes wrote: > If you can't test Braille support, don't just remove it, ask for help > testing. > > I would be happy to test Braille support on Linux, and I am sure there are > others who would be willing to test as well. Actually, I think it's mostly used by people running FreeBSD, possibl

RE: Some features may be dropped from GNU Screen in the future (including braille support)

2014-04-02 Thread Don Raikes
may be dropped from GNU Screen in the future (including braille support) Hi, on the GNU Screen development mailing list, there's currently a thread which discusses how to get some drive in the GNU Screen development again. Amadeusz Sławiński (Cc'ed) has a git repo with some a li

Some features may be dropped from GNU Screen in the future (including braille support)

2014-04-02 Thread Axel Beckert
Hi, on the GNU Screen development mailing list, there's currently a thread which discusses how to get some drive in the GNU Screen development again. Amadeusz Sławiński (Cc'ed) has a git repo with some a little bit more disruptive changes at https://github.com/amade/screen/tree/devel/src In the