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 _______________________________________________ fltk-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.easysw.com/mailman/listinfo/fltk-dev
