Main advantages of SBL over Speakup

[Bill Cox]

Ok, that makes some sense.  SBL is used as you suggest, in a menu
driven environment.  Are the generic keybindings configurable?  I've
heard requests, and I admit I agree, that it would be nice to have
more consistency between speakup and Orca.

Thanks,
Bill

On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 5:43 PM, Pia <pmikeal at comcast.net> wrote:
>
>
> On Mon, 8 Feb 2010, Bill Cox wrote:
>
>> I'm trying to port SBL (Suse Blind Linux) to Ubuntu.  It is the
>> default console screen reader in Knoppix Adrian.  Some users report
>> they prefer SBL, and two main reasons are given:
>
> The problem with application specific key bindings is that it makes your
> basic environment inconsistent.  I think the two programs were written for
> different audiences but I could be wrong.  I find in general most command
> line only power users prefer a consistent environment, ie behavior won't be
> application specific, whereas a user more comfortable with a menu driven
> system who only wants a handful of standard applications to be smoother to
> operate and don't care about generic consistency would prefer something like
> SBL.
>
>>
>> - SBL has application specific keybindings, all of which are
>> user-configurable.  This makes it easy to be more Orca compatible.
>> - SBL relies only on the uinput and console devices, and doesn't need
>> any special modules to be compiled for the current kernel.  This makes
>> it possible to ship as a simple Debian package.
>>
>
> To make Speakup not be kernel space would not only require a complete
> rewrite but also again would not let the power user or sys admin hear boot
> time messages.  I think in general because these two software packages serve
> different user types that it is important speakup not change because it is
> the only software package that meets my needs as a sys admin who needs a
> serious full fledged environment that can talk at all times.
>
> Regards,
>
> Pia
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