After a quick e-mail to Denis, I have decided to start a project to give DirectFB a Complete Application Framework Enviroment. How about cofe for short? I want ANY suggestions or thoughts from to dev team before I start.
So far from talking with a few other developers in Australia, I have got this list: First: KEEP IT EMBEDABLE (not bloatware) and: KEEP IT INTERGRATED Application Framework - An intergrated Desktop, Window, and GUI toolkit, with modular library support to allow easy addition of custom widgets (and a policy to intergreat usefull custom widgets back into the project) Hardware Manager Display Setup Program Simplified Font Management Config settings library Hardware Accelerated Graphics Internatialized Accessibality Toolkit Remote Window Protocol Remote Terminal Service Management Application SDL and OpenGL libraries for Game developement java, Gnome, KDE, Motif, BeOS, X, and TK widget wrappers Cross platform half-compiled multi-source-language binaries (ala, .net, java), to allow apps to be written in any language, and compiled (?) apps to be excuited on any platform. Internal Font management. I know that there is a lot of work involved in even just starting this project, but I feel that the project would help make Linux (with the help of DirectFB) a viable desktop alternative, and encourage a lot more apps to be written for DirectFB. I also plan on setting up forums and polls for the discussion of the direction on which this project should head, and to help game makers and app dev's to port their progs to the cafe. I will do that as soon as some one comes up with a good name for the project. I would also hope that the project would be accecpted enough to warrent the cafe library to be included in the DirectFB package. Personally I would hate to see DirectFB just become another way to run X11 apps, and would hate to see any disunity on the DirectFB platform like between GNOME and KDE. Although I would hope to intergrate most of the GNOME and KDE functions and widgets into DirectFB. Regards, (and avidly waiting to here responses) Karl Bowden -- Info: To unsubscribe send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe directfb-dev" as subject.
