As many of you know I'm working on porting the metacity wm to gtk/directfb and making it a wm.
This has lead to some intresting bootstrapping issues. The root problem is that the cursor is itself a window which causes the windowing to basically leak throughout the directfb code. If instead we make the cursor a sprite and not a window this isolates the windowing from non windowing mode and allows some major cleanups in initialization. My goal if for each part of directfb to be able to initialize without requiring higher level initialization. Is there a good small sprite library for dfb if so I think we should integrate it and the cursor would just become a slightly specialized sprite ? Unique for example is almost a sprite library for its borders but is there something else ? Next I plan to add a wm_start_desktop function thats called after dfb is fully initialized to allow running advanced desktop stuff. Mike _______________________________________________ directfb-dev mailing list [email protected] http://mail.directfb.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/directfb-dev
