On Thu, 2002-10-17 at 20:58, Sven Neumann wrote: > Hi, > > Karl Bowden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > 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. > > what exactly is bad about having a variety of toolkits? The only thing > that's annoying is if they interact badly. Lately the KDE and GNOME > people put a lot of effort into improving the interoperability of > their applications. If you are interested you should probably have a > look at http://www.freedesktop.org/. There are a couple of > toolkit-independent proposals and specs there that should definitely > be considered for whatever new application framework you are designing.
Completly agreed. I will have a good look at freedesktop.org. But a lot of developers I have talked to in my travels, have felt that linux was not ready as a viable alternative to windows for there applications, because of the fact that there are so many standard toolkits for X11. They will not write a program for gnome for fear of kde people not using it and vise versa. If we give DirectFB a standard toolkit that is themeable to FEEL like gnome or kde or anything, then developers just have to write the app for the api, and the clients choose how they want (all) their apps to look. > > 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)? > > I'd say that for security reasons the master application should be as > simple as possible and should thus probably do nothing but being the > master application. > > > 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.
