What's keeping it from beeing included; just lack of support or lack of interest among the mainstream kernel group? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Janina Sajka" <janina@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Friday, January 16, 2004 12:37 PM Subject: Re: speakup as modules > Top answer--flexibility is good. Having a choice means serving different > needs more comprehensively. > > For example, in my case, on my portable machine, I may, or may not, have > a hardware synth plugged in. And, if I do have one plugged in, it could > one of several, a Litetalk or a DEC Talk Express, for instance. Because > Speakup is modular, I can also switch synths without rebooting. > > In the long run, it's probably critical for Speakup to be modular if > we're ever to see it included in the stock kernel. > > > > Ameer Armaly writes: > > From: "Ameer Armaly" <Ameer_Armaly at hotmail.com> > > > > Hi all. > > Out of curiosity, I was wondering what is special about running speakup builtin or as a module? Many people seem to use it as a module set, and I would think it's safer to have it talk at startup, to insure that kernels run smoothly, but this is just my opinion; maybe it's just because I used to misscompile my kernels so many times in the past. > > Thanks, > > > > > > > > Ameer > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > -- > > Janina Sajka > Email: janina at rednote.net > Phone: (202) 408-8175 > > Director, Technology Research and Development > American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) > http://www.afb.org > > Chair, Accessibility Work Group > Free Standards Group > http://accessibility.freestandards.org > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
