Just warning everyone to forgive any bad wording in my mail A couple of times I talked about DirectFB and DFB Cafe as if they were the same thing.
On Thu, 17 Oct 2002 1:56 pm, Ian Walters wrote: > On Thu, 17 Oct 2002 11:17 am, Karl Bowden wrote: > > After a quick e-mail to Denis, I have decided to start a project to give > > DirectFB a Complete Application Framework Environment. How about cafe for > > short? I want ANY suggestions or thoughts from to dev team before I > > start. > > Good idea... so I take it you have done some extensive testing of the > multi-process stuff (I keep meaning to but never get around to it). I know > all the code is there, but I was under the impression it needed more > testing still. > > > So far from talking with a few other developers in Australia, I have got > > this list: > > Which part of Australia (I am in Brisbane BTW) > > > First: KEEP IT EMBEDABLE (not bloatware) > > and: KEEP IT INTERGRATED > > And being from Trolltech I can't help but think I should promote Qtopia as > fulfilling both of these. Pity for Trolltech they are not your only goals > > :). I will try to stay on topic form here on in... > : > > 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) > > Any plugin architecture should handle this. I just don't want to see this > go the way of X with everything being in 'extensions'. I am just saying be > careful what you say isn't core. > > > Display Setup Program > > This (or at least Display setup) should be probably written directly to the > DirectFB API, and to a console mode. In fact it would probably be useful > regardless. Although currently all I can think of that needs setting are > what goes in fb-modes. > > > SDL and OpenGL libraries for Game developement > > I would focus on this, it would be one of the really big advantages and not > just for game development. Transcode I think might at least touch on some > useful ideas as well, but don't ask me any details. > > > java, Gnome, KDE, Motif, BeOS, X, and TK widget wrappers > > Let me know if you start work on a Qt port. I haven't yet had time to do > it myself but I have looked at doing it once or twice. I saw the word > wrappers and not port up above, so I know this may not be what you meant. > > > I will do that as soon as some one comes up with a good name for the > > project. > > Um, can't think of anything yet.. but it sounds as if DFB Cafe should be a > good working name for now. > > > 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. > > Rather than integrating the widgets, you might want to see what are the > best features, (such as DCop and parts from KDE, I am sure Gnome has > something worthwhile). After all if it proves so useful in a > window-manager, (and can without bias be put into DirectFB) it probably is > worth integration. > > > Regards, (and avidly waiting to here responses) > > Karl Bowden > > Yeah, I know my reply hasn't had that much actual information. But I would > like to see this succeed, so I suggest working out a 'what is needed > first'. and get to something that could be handled by a handful of people > in a few months. This would help get it off the ground. > > Good luck. -- Info: To unsubscribe send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe directfb-dev" as subject.
