On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 01:14:45AM +1100, Carsten Haitzler wrote: > On Thu, 8 Oct 2009 15:47:25 +0200 "Michael 'Mickey' Lauer" > <mic...@vanille-media.de> said: > > > Raster, X may not be big our bloated, but would you please stop pretending > > you know all usecases people will ever have? There _are_ usecases for plain > > framebuffer. > > very very very few cases. even if all you want is 1 process fullscreen, x will > provide portable infrasturcture. if the reason is size, then it's a pretty > specious position considering how small x can really be (compared to > everything > else).
This should eventually become a graphical boot menu for Qi. So yes it basically is just one fullscreen process. Give me some numbers, how small can X really be? On my SHR Xfbdev/Xglamo without all libraries and data files are both about ~1MB which is pretty large given that my whole initramfs is about 4-5MB. > > but hey! i don't see you coming to his rescue and giving him a fontconfig > setup. at least i suggested something that would work and get him fonts. very > x > package install i have come across has also set up Sans for fontconfig. it > will > do the job. I agree that X provides a kind of standard environment. But the most comfortable way is not always the best one. And moreover doing things in an non-standard way is fun. Marc -- Marc Andre Tanner >< http://www.brain-dump.org/ >< GPG key: CF7D56C0 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Come build with us! The BlackBerry(R) Developer Conference in SF, CA is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and stay ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9 - 12, 2009. Register now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconference _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
