Hi
i'm happy to see many people intersted in GTKDFB: as Richard Unger said,
the upcoming Etch Debian Installer is planned to include a graphical
user interface based on GTKDFB [1].
ATM we use GTKDFB 2.0.9 [2] since it has to be stable enough for our
needs but we plan to switch to 2.8.x GTKDFB serie as soon as its
components find a proper collocation into their respective mainlines and
some needed rework has been done.
Mike Emmel, main developer of GTKDFB, will be away for a week but he
said as soon as he's back again he will work on integrating CairoDFB
into Cairo and then GDKDFB into GTK [3].
After the graphical debian installer has been announced, many bugreports
were reported against GTKDFB and DFB: they are reported against the
cdebconf-gtk udeb package [4] to able to track down everything later.
Also, i know a BTS exists for the GTDFB / DFB project were i think some
bugs ATM reported against cdebconf-gtk should be forwarded to.
ATM GTKDFB 2.8.3 has to be built from sources applying some patches [5],
but it basically works and an experimenta debian-installer ISO based on
GTKDFB 2.8,3 is available [6].
GTKDFB, after the death of GTKFB project, is the only known (to me)
alternative to tunning GTK apps over an X server and could be a good
solutions for embedded devices/distributions like the debian-installer,
where size matter more than performance and functionality.
Help in developing GTKDFB would be very apreciated by the whole
debian-installer team!
ciao
Attilio
[1] http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstallerGUI
[2] http://people.debian.org/~fjp/d-i/gtk-miniiso/daily
[3]
http://mail.directfb.org/pipermail/directfb-dev/2005-December/001096.html
[4] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=cdebconf-gtk-udeb
[5] http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstallerGUIBuild
[6] https://debian.polito.it/downloads/mini_gtkdfb_2_8_3.iso
Marcus Crafter wrote:
Hi Richie,
Thanks for your response mate, much appreciated.
Are Mike/Attilio/etc on this list? or would I better off following up
with these guys on the debian-installer mailing list (or another one
elsewhere?)
Looking forward to hearing what they've got to say.
Cheers,
Marcus
On 13/12/2005, at 2:27 PM, Unger Richard wrote:
Hi!
I believe Mike Emmel, Attilio Fiandrotti and some others are working
hard on this.
The effort seems to be centered around the Debian Graphical Installer
project.
AFAIK there is work to be done on GTKDFB as well as CAIRODFB (which
is used by GTKDFB), but the developers would be better people to ask.
One nice thing would be a proper integration of GTKDFB into GTK as an
'officially' supported backend, so that it could be more
nicely/conveniently distributed (the current 'patch' system is a bit
clunky to handle, and leads to problems coordinating releases/ versions).
Richie
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Betreff: [directfb-dev] Status of DirectFB/GTK 2.8?
Hi All,
Hope all is going well.
Great to see that GTK 2.8 support is being worked on with DirectFB.
I followed the instructions at: http://www.directfb.org/wiki/
index.php/Projects:GTK_on_DirectFB
to get a working GTK 2.8 under DirectFB (awesome).
I'm wondering if there's an overall status of the port? ie. what
works, what doesn't, what still needs to be done? All the usual
questions, etc. :)
Perhaps someone might be able to summarise it for me, so I can find
out where I might be able to join in and help?
Cheers,
Marcus
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