Hi Nicolas I looked at the screenshot and now i'm really interested in having a look at the patches required by libxfce4gui to build on top of DFB. The DFB backend for GDK was heavily reworked this year and is now part of main GTK tree; it's used in the graphical debian installer (and i think in some linux-embedded project too) and will be maintained trough time. Pheraps this justifies spending some time to having (a part of) xfce running on top of a DFB based system. Mike Emmel, GDKDFB maintainer, is close to get a working GDK port of the gtkwebcore browser, which togheter with (a subset of) xfce could be the base for a small X-less desktop system.
cheers Attilio Masse Nicolas wrote: > Le Thu, 26 Oct 2006 12:00:15 +0530, > Pradosh Adoni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : > > Hi, > > just to say that I get my hand on my old code and was able to run > xfce4-panel on directfb once again! > I also made a screenshot, and I think I would make a page on the > directfb wiki (here is the link: > http://www.directfb.org/wiki/index.php/DFB_panel). I will also put the > code, is some wants to have a look. > But anyway, don't forget that this is more something like a 'proof of > concept' or 'proof of feasability' than anything else, since it's based > on quite old code and is also quite buggy. > > Fell free to have a look, > bountykiller. > > Note: I cc the directfb and xfce ML since some can be interested in > that. > > >>Hi Nicolas, >> >>Thanks for responding. >> >>It would be good to have a panel that is pure DirectFB especially for >>embedded devices, phones,PDAs and the like.It think it's only been >>about 6 months or so since DirectFB has started becoming more >>"usable" (if you could call it that) and I suppose people are going >>to start looking at a pure DirectFB desktop soon. >>You seem to be the only one who has actually tried porting any panel >>to DirectFB.I didn't want to reinvent the wheel if the code was lying >>around somewhere , so I asked. :). >> >>It would be great if you could find the code :) >> >>Thanks >>-- Pradosh Adoni >> >>On Wed, 2006-10-25 at 19:16 +0200, Nicolas Masse wrote: >> >>>Le mercredi 25 octobre 2006 à 13:11 +0530, Pradosh Adoni a écrit : >>> >>>>Hi, >>>> >>>>I came across your post on the directfb-dev archives regarding the >>>>xfce-panel on directfb. >>>>I'm interested in a (minimally) functional panel for DirectFB. >>>>Have you released the port anywhere under GPL by any chance ? >>>> >>>>Apologies for being so curt. >>>> >>>>Thanks and Regards, >>>>Pradosh Adoni >>> >>>hmm, well, it's a quite old post... >>>No, I didn't release anything under GPL. I had at a time a panel, >>>but it was really buggy. Only launcher were working a little, with >>>some bugs tough. >>>Perhaps if I try it now,would it be working better, since I assume >>>the gtk port made some enhancement. >>>In fact, the biggest problem was some missing feature in directfb, >>>especially the lack of messaging between windows. (there was a >>>discussion about ipc under dfb on the ML). But i think it has begin >>>to change quite recently. >>> >>>With all that in consideration, and the fact that you feel >>>interested, perhaps can i get back to that. It was not too hard to >>>do it once, so i assume i can do it again. At least, I will try to >>>see if I haven't some code lost on my hard drive. >>> >>>Thanks for your interest, >>>Masse Nicolas. >>> >>> > > > _______________________________________________ > directfb-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.directfb.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/directfb-users > _______________________________________________ directfb-users mailing list [email protected] http://mail.directfb.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/directfb-users
