hi！
Agree with Paulo, and recently I also have a plan to extend LiTE
widget lib. maybe you can give a widget list what Gecko need, and I'm
glad to help.
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>Hi All,
>
>> A GTK and Cairo free DirectFB backend would be the best :)
>
>I agree with dok. A "pure" DirectFB backend would be lighter than a
>gtk-based backend.
>
>For porting Gecko, we must port the classes contained in two
>directories in its sourcecode: gfx and widget. The "gfx" dir provides
>drawing functions and the "widget" dir provides basical widget
>implementations.
>
>Perhaps Gecko has mostly all the code for drawing the widgets it
>needs. So we don't need all the power a complex toolkit like Gtk
>provides. Yes, maybe using Gtk makes the porting process more easy,
>but it doens't is the ideal.
>
>Maybe we could use some LiTE in the Gecko port, as I've already said,
>as it should provide all that we need.
>
>The company I work will sponsor me in the project of porting Gecko to
>DirectFB, as they want to run Gecko under really poor hardware. It
>must run as lighter as possible, so "pure" DirectFB should be the
>best. Then, we could make terminals with Linux kernel + uclibc +
>DirectFB + Gecko. It seems to be very light...
>
>> Have you also looked at WebKit? Anyway, hmm, it would be tempting to get
>> Gecko running as a DirectFB/Web OS solution. I think the future
>> embedded Os is a Web OS.
>
>Yes, it's tempting to me too =)
>And yes, I've looked at WebKit. It's the Apple's khtml-based engine.
>I've even tested a port of it to gtk, named gtk-webcore. It seems very
>promising, but Gecko is far more madure.
>
>And Gecko not only renders HTML, it provides XUL, so a whole complex
>interface can be made on top of it. All the Mozilla suite is written
>in XUL: Firefox, Thunderbird, Seamonkey, and so on. It's managed and
>drawed by the Gecko core.
>
>Yes, if we port Gecko, we can imediattely run the Mozilla suite and
>any other XUL-based software under pure DirectFB. It is wonderful,
>isn't it? ;)
>
>Regards,
>Paulo Matias
>
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