Hi, Seemant Kulleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I've been wanting to use DirectFB for a long time now. Someone on our > development team is working on a build script for XDirectFB which I am > excited about. GTK+DirectFB will be added into Gentoo once we have an > unmasked GTK+2 script. Meanwhile, I want to ask about DirectFB. How in > the world does one actually use it? The documentation is quite unclear on > this point. I can get some of the examples to run, and they do look > fantastic. However, I'd like to be able to have a graphical environment > without running X, and I thought DirectFB was the answer to that. Am I > mistaken in my thinking? DirectFB is meant to be thin graphics library on top of the Linux framebuffer that exports full access to hardware acceleration while still hiding the details of different hardware from the developer. It is not meant to be or to become a graphical desktop environment. However we tried to design it in a way that makes it suit well to build a desktop environment on top of it. Salut, Sven -- Info: To unsubscribe send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe directfb-users" as subject.
