Re: [linux-audio-dev] GUIless friendly applications

"Dave Griffiths" &lt;dave(a)pawfal.org&gt; writes: Let me explain. The building of patches is what currently doesnt work at all, so if a cli is easy to write for that, that would help ALOT! I think you shouldn't concern yourself with a realtime interface for the blind. We'll handle this ourselves. What is important is that every vital and important bit of information is exposed via a clean cli interface. I can write my own realtime controllers for such a cli pipe if I need to for instance, take ecasound.el, it is nothing else than a emacs interface to the ecasound cli, and it is already at a point where I created a special widget which can "slide" by pressing + or - on it. Whats important is that you expose information like available plugins and their parameters also through your cli, much like *-register and map-*-list in ECI. Another thought is, controllers could easily be controlled using MIDI CC, and infact I have a midi-keyboard. We could also try and write a blind-friendly virtual midi keyboard at some point... So please dont concern yourself with things like "how should a ui for the blind look like...". If you offer a truly complete CLI to your program, and document it + some examples, we'll be able to work on from there... Otherwise, if you really wanna try to write a ncurses-like realtime interface, just do it, if you can cope with it, I can too :). The only thing which is important is that there is a cli too... P.S.: The CLI is not only good for us blind people, there are alot of benefits for such an interface, think scripting. -- CYa, Mario | Debian Developer <URL:http://debian.org/> | Get my public key via finger mlang(a)db.debian.org | 1024D/7FC1A0854909BCCDBE6C102DDFFC022A6B113E44