Modularisation

[Saqib Shaikh]

Yes, if Speakup were a module you would get speech right from the beginning
like now.

Saqib

----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Holmes" <steve at holmesgrown.com>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2001 12:54 PM
Subject: Re: Modularisation


> I would only hope that if modulerized that speakup could still speak at
> the beginning like it does now. Lately, I've found that info to be of
> extreme value while setting up a new machine and new hardware
> configurations. That's something I particularly dislike about windows;
> screen readers are applications and must wait til most of the operating
> system is already running before it can talk.
>
> On Tue, 25 Sep 2001, Saqib Shaikh wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > While I think that it is good that parts of Speakup has been included in
the kernel, I would still like to see Speakup be a kernel module so that it
can be added/removed at will.  What do people think of this?
> >
> > Secondly, I personally don't like the fact that one must change the
keymaps to use Speakup.  Could Speakup be changed so that it monitors all
keypresses, and if it wants to deal with them it does so and then all other
keys are passed through?  This would, in my opinion, be a far better
solution.
> >
> > Finally I would like to raise the issue of security.  Many of my friends
at universities in the UK use Emacspeak rather than Speakup purely because
our universities consider patching every kernel both a security risk and a
hastle.  On the security side I also know of at least one distribution that
refuses to include Speakup because of it being a security risk.
> >
> > Any comments welcome.  If there's anything I can do to help rectify the
possible flaws above let me know.
> >
> > Saqib
> >
> >
>
>
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