Reported by dkager on 2015-07-05 15:11
It would be useful to have a way to turn off the braille cursor. Here "cursor" means both the blinking dots 7 and 8 as well as the permanent highlighting marking with the same dot pattern. This improves the reading experience if the user doesn't need to edit anything and may also be a work-around for issue #5158. In general I also find it easier to read with the cursor off even in editable text as long as I can influence where the cursor will end up myself, i.e. using cursor routing keys to position it before editing.
Things I'm not sure about:
- Should it be possible to toggle the cursor and highlighting separately, or using a single command? I'd be OK with the latter.
- Should this be an option in Braille Settings or only a script command? Just a command seems good enough because it is unlikely that someone will want to turn off the cursor globally, although I think this should be made possible by storing this setting in config. But in general, this feature would be most useful through a braille display key binding.
I'd welcome all feedback on this.
Blocking #5206
Reported by dkager on 2015-07-05 15:11
It would be useful to have a way to turn off the braille cursor. Here "cursor" means both the blinking dots 7 and 8 as well as the permanent highlighting marking with the same dot pattern. This improves the reading experience if the user doesn't need to edit anything and may also be a work-around for issue #5158. In general I also find it easier to read with the cursor off even in editable text as long as I can influence where the cursor will end up myself, i.e. using cursor routing keys to position it before editing.
Things I'm not sure about:
I'd welcome all feedback on this.
Blocking #5206