Hi, You are correct, DirectFB will be the best solution if don't want X. I am not telling this because I like DirectFB. Long Time back I started to search for a graphical environment which meets the following conditions.
*) Size (Only the binaries and Lib) should not exceed 3MB *) Complete Graphics Support for rendering etc... *) A proper IDE for developing apps. *) A Proven platform *) Easily Portable *) IMPORTANT NO X (Because it is heavy) I tried the following platforms *) NANO-X (This is really good, but there is not much activity and no further release after Nov 2001) *) DirectFB (I selected and started my development) *) OpenGUI (Not attractive for graphics rich apps) *) SVGALIB ( "" ) *) TinyX (I could not find any information, and it is based on X) I finally selected the DirectFB with GTK, because *) Reasonably good Direct Access Layer (DirectFB) *) GTK is portable to any platform tomorrow *) Small footprint *) You have GLADE for developing your GUI *) Very good activity *) Good Support *) Continuous releases OK~ Friend everything is based on my experience, I am not against any other packages, and MORE IMPORTANT I AM NOT RESPOSIBLE FOR ANY OF YOUR ACTIVITIES, DECISION YOU TAKE BASED ON MY SUGGESTION. REGARDS RD -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Seemant Kulleen Sent: Friday, May 24, 2002 05:51 P To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [directfb-users] how to actually use directfb?? Hi All, 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? Please help. Thanks, -- Seemant Kulleen Developer and Project Co-ordinator, Gentoo Technologies Inc. http://www.gentoo.org -- Info: To unsubscribe send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe directfb-users" as subject. -- Info: To unsubscribe send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe directfb-users" as subject.
