Hi, On Fri, 2007-06-08 at 15:04 +0100, Silva, Daniel wrote: > The problem with evas as i see it, is the available developer pool. > GTK as of now is more mature and has many more knowledged developers > available.
Yes, I agree, but the interesting part of Evas is the concepts it uses for drawing things, it is transparent for the developer the way the widget are redrawn. I just think that I could be nice to try it. > Another option, i just thought it abiut it now, is to loose GTK and EFL > altogether and use > Cairo to render all the widgets, its has many backends already available > including X, DirectFB and OpenGL so > that wouldn't be an issue, it also has bindings for MANY languages so that > isn't an issue either. If we have to program all the widgets with Cairo, we could come back to GTK+ that already uses Cairo and save the widgets programming effort :) > It would require some initial work to program all the widgets, but i believe > in the long run it > would pay off. > > Regards, > Daniel Regards, -- Pedro Aguilar > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Pedro Aguilar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "ThomasGstädtner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: <[email protected]>; "Florent THIERY" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Friday, June 08, 2007 1:56 PM > Subject: Re: UI ideas/questions or can we animate things as smooth as > iPhone? > > > Hi, > > > > We should try different options, do some serious benchmarks and based on > > the results we could choose the best solution. > > > > Some options would be: > > - X11/GTK > > - X11/EFL > > - DirectFB/GTK > > - DirectFB/EFL > > > > Both, GTK and EFL, have backends for X11 and DirectFB, so running demos > > and apps shouldn't be a problem. > > > > Running DirectFB/GTK works fine in embedded systems, I used it in a > > PNX8550 processor, but the Neo's processor doesn't have that processing > > power... > > > > According to the ELF doc, the Evas library with DirectFB backend is > > designed with embedded systems in mind, but I haven't tested it. At least > > in the i386 platform works great. > > > > One real problem I see is that for making some benchmarking we need the > > real hardware, an emulator wouldn't be reliable. > > > > Regards, > > -- > > Pedro Aguilar > > > >> Imho the EFL are the best choise for a device like the Neo. > >> I'm really looking forward to have a EFL-based gui as alternative to the > >> GTK-gui. > >> > >> > >> 2007/6/8, Florent THIERY <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >>> > >>> Related tutorial : > >>> > >>> http://www.directfb.org/wiki/index.php/Projects:GTK_on_DirectFB_for_Embedded_Systems > >>> > >>> The choice should be driven by benchmarks results. EFLs are on the row > >>> too... > >>> > >>> Cheers > >>> > >>> Florent > >>> > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> OpenMoko community mailing list > >>> [email protected] > >>> http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community > >>> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> OpenMoko community mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community > >> > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > OpenMoko community mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community > _______________________________________________ OpenMoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
