Improving the Fedora boot experience

[Máirín Duffy]

Hi Zan,

On 03/13/2013 10:46 AM, zan wrote:
> It is unfortunately more complicated.  Most graphical toolkits now
> provide hooks that you can use to scrape the screen with.  Anaconda
> does not have any way to get information about what is going on from
> brltty's point of view.  I have not looked at the Anaconda code in
> quite some time.  I imagine it could be patched to provide them, but I
> do remember thinking that it did not look very straightforward, even
> though there is an API provided by brltty for this sort of thing.
> There is a fedora usability group, where it has been discussed from
> time to time, especially whenever the Anaconda folks are proposing to
> look at making changes.  We have asked several times for brltty
> support to be included, but without success so far.  It is always
> going to be a problem when people are busy and donating their free
> time, and most of the developers are not able to test it themselves.

With the new UI rewrite, we did update the Anaconda UI code to use GTK3
and python GObject introspection, do you know if those changes might
make it easier to support brltty?

~m