On Thu, 2002-10-17 at 19:25, Sven Neumann wrote: > Hi, > > Karl Bowden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Thu, 2002-10-17 at 14:11, Ian Walters wrote: > > > 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. > > > > That's OK, mate. I hope in time (and not to much of it) that DirectFB > > and DFBCafe will be the same thing. > > I haven't understood until now why you want to integrate all this into > DirectFB? We try to keep DirectFB as small and modular as possible. I > don't see how a complete application framework fits into this. It > should be possible to develop all this on top of DirectFB and we are > willing to do the necessary changes if there are any but I don't see > why the scope of the DirectFB package should be extended in such a > way.
That's ok. My idea of having DFBCafe included in DirectFB was to ensure that the widget toolkit was STANDARD. Just to prevent what has happened with KDE, Gnome, TK, Mozilla, etc. I was just after as much feedback as possible and thank you for your input. I am more than happy to put DFBCafe as a library on top of DirectFB, if the intentions of the DirectFB team are to use it as the standard library. If not then I would much rather support any effort that you would reccomend. > > Actually I have not had the chance yet. But I think the next major step > > the project (DirectFB) takes would be the multi-app core that does not > > require root privilages (but I also have no idea of how hard this would > > be). > > that should be simple. There only needs to be a very simple (and thus > probably quite secure) master application that accesses the hardware > directly. All other applications don't need root privileges. If only you could make everything sound that easy, but keep up the good work. Would the master application be like XDM? or more like a library? To make it like XDM in the sense of it being a gui login shell would be cool (and maybe even use DFBCafe). What about in the sense of accecpting remote connections (or forwarding them)? > > Salut, Sven > > > -- > Info: To unsubscribe send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > "unsubscribe directfb-dev" as subject. > -- Info: To unsubscribe send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe directfb-dev" as subject.
