Riccardo, On Wednesday, February 17, 2016, Riccardo Mottola < [email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, > > Richard Frith-Macdonald wrote: > >> It would be nice to target the Rasbpberry Pi using Wayland >> > me too. except for Wayland. I want to have run on raspbian smoothly > instead of the provided WM they have. Why not wayland? Network transparency is not something which is super important these days even on the rpi. Wayland brings us a number of advantages: * native compositing * it expects frameworks to draw their own Windows something we do extremely well. * it supports true window transparency * it allows animations and such to be done much more l easily if and when needed * etc I think we really need to question whether X truly serves our needs. No one is saying leave it behind. What we are saying is to take advantage of the things wayland does for us. > There are also similar devices which could fit well: there are talks about > laptops around PPC. > > We aren't "that distant" by the way. That is, it is not "lacking" much > more than a standard linux, except for additional issues with speed and > memory and slowness in startup. ARM works quite well even with the supplied > GCC. No paritcular graphic issues either. These need to be looked at. Slowness has been a problem. I can remember using GNUstep on a 128mb Linux machine 10-12 years ago. I would like to get some benchmarks which are unbiased about our performance rather than hearsay and conjecture. I would also like us to focus on hardware on which GNUstep will be realistically deployed rather than taking the netbsd approach and worrying about making it work everywhere. > > Of course, since we are quite far away to have a usable desktop on x86.... > we are just a little better off on smaller plaform because other desktops > (e.g. Gnome) are soo big and heavy that become unusable on those smaller > things. > > Riccardo > GC. -- Gregory Casamento GNUstep Lead Developer / OLC, Principal Consultant http://www.gnustep.org - http://heronsperch.blogspot.com http://ind.ie/phoenix/
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