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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hi,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>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?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>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.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>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.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Any comments welcome. If there's anything I
can do to help rectify the possible flaws above let me know.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Saqib</FONT></DIV>
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