On 13.04.2010, at 14:36, MacArthur, Ian (SELEX GALILEO, UK) wrote:

>> I did however implement a very simple HAL for FLTK2 at some 
>> point to get a few user interface elements into a screen 
>> buffer attached to a regular PC that was otherwise not 
>> supported by the OS. Limiting myself to a single font face 
>> and a single font size, it was very fast and quite tiny.
> 
> Indeed so.
> But the problem is not in the niche cases, it is the requests we are
> seeing from folk that want to do all the things X can support, but for
> some reason want to re-write it all from scratch.
> 
> CPU power has advanced so far that X just is not an issue any more.

Yes, I see your point. I also checked out DirectFB and was quite surprised what 
a beast it has become. Transparen rotatabe windows? How can that be any smaller 
or faster than X11?

Ah well.

 - Matthias
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