[Tux4kids-tuxtype-dev] Tux4kids-tuxtype-dev Digest, Vol 66, Issue 6

[Pere Pujal i Carabantes]

El dg 21 de 07 de 2013 a les 00:13 +0530, en/na Nalin X Linux va
escriure:
> 
>         Nice, no longer crashes :)
>         
>         One thing I am wondering is how to handle the different
>         keyboard layouts
>         in the brailler emulator, for example the letters sdf jkl are
>         in the
>         same place in qwerty/qwertz and azerty keyboards, but the
>         number 6
>         behaves different in azerty(I can access one) you have to hit
>         the Shift
>         key or have Caps lock active in order to type numbers there.
>         Other
>         keyboards are very different...
>         
>         
>         Informative texts like "Game paused", "Pause released", etc
>         must be
>         gettexted.
>         
>         I would allow the letters used for brailler to be translated
>         in some way
>         too(gettext too?)
>         
>         gettext allows translators specify the central letters in the
>         main
>         layout keyboard used in their language, the counterpart is
>         that any
>         people that wants to play tuxtype in this language and has not
>         a
>         keyboard with that layout will not be able to type in
>         brailler, any
>         comments? ideas?
>         
>         
>         
>         BTW what is the number 6 used for?
>         >
>         
>         Hope this helps
>         Pere
> 
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> 
> Sir 
>   currently i am working on braille rules for indian languages which
> uses multiple map files(word start and middle of word), i think you
> are aware that all the languages of the world have same braille code
> based on phonetics. i am trying create a rule reader for braille so
> that it can be applied to different languages as i have done in
> sharada-braille-writer. 
> 
> 
> Yesterday i have tested tuxtype with a few children in the govt school
> for the visually impaired here and end with following conclusion in
> fishcascade game.
> 1 - FISH_SPACING for Easy Medium and Hard must be 90 60 & 30 instead
> of 90 40 & 30. 
> 2 - it is better to announce only last three words instead of
> announcing all words in screen, to avoid confusion.
> How do you feel about above changes ? 

If you have arrived to this conclusion after testing on the real people
who are the target of your code, then it is OK. You are better placed
than me to judge this.
Just make sure that these changes only takes effect when in
accessibility mode and tuxtype continues behaving as before in regular
mode. 
> 
> 


> sir i could not understand what you meant by "but the number 6
> behaves different in azerty(I can access one) you have to hit the
> Shift
> key or have Caps lock active in order to type numbers there. 

Sorry, please forgive this, I've misread one of yours messages and
wrongly assumed that the number 6 was in use in your brailler
emulator :(


> Other
> keyboards are very different... "

This stills holds true, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keyboard_layout
to get an overview of different keyboard layouts.
We need a way to allow people use the brailler emulator in different
keyboard layouts.


Pere