I'm pretty much Linux newby, though I'm comfortable with CLI and can find my way around kernel/application patching and compilation. Yet, I never made XDirectFB working with Xorg (6.8.2). I'm lightly familiar with C and shell scripting, though those debugging messages don't mean much to me. I mainly use SuSe and Slackware, so I'm eager to help in any way I can in bringing the XDirectFB to (easy) usable state (beta testing / bug reporting ?). And another (off-topic) thing... did anybody try to run Enlightenment17 on top of XDirectFB? I heard their canvas library (EVAS) has DFB backend. It would be cool to make E17 run native on DFB, but as it has many dependencies on Xlib first thing to do would be enabling XDirectFB. I see DFB community has plans on implementing event/ICCM mechanisms and its own toolkit (for which lack it's been criticised as a potential desktop platform), but I wonder... Would it be plausible to utilise (adapt/modify) code from other prospect projects for that purpose? Like Enlightenment's ecore library for event triggering or making FLTK a default DFB toolkit. I read on FLTK's message board that they have plans for making DFB backend. FLTK v2.0 will be fully themable so look-and-feel wouldn't be of concern. E17 and FLTK are very fast, light-weight, powerfull and easy to learn frameworks, as I understand, and would fit perfectly in DFB project. Well... at least philosophicly. As I said, I'm not developer (at least not yet) and I may be off my limits over here, so please don't bash me if I'm not making any sense. :) It's just that I'm over excited and enthusiastic about these imaginative and creative graphic technologies. Marko M.
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