I am actualy working on a ggi centric distrobution. So I would be greatly
interestred in what projects spring up that use ggi.
On Thu, 21 Oct 1999, Davide Inglima, limaCAT wrote:
>
>> I would like to propose an idea to get libGGI included in all major Linux
>> distributions.
>
>> One way to do this, is to take a heavily graphical program that almost always
>> gets installed automatically when you install a distribution, and port
>> it to use libGGI.
>
>> Ofcourse it should not only made to use libGGI, but you should also
>> make sure it runs a lot faster, fix some bugs, etc. to make the original
>> author happy, to be sure (s)he will include your patches. This would
>> ofcourse create a dependency so that anyone using that program now
>> should also install libGGI to use it.
>
>[Cut]
>Well a good side/target could be "snes9x" ... it is a snes emulator that
>runs under X-Windows (with an heavy performance drawback), under SVgalib
>(Without 16bit support for most cards) and even under 3dfx renderer, but
>has a very old ggi-support (it has "NEEDS GRAPHTYPE SYMS" and needs separate
>framebuffer and pixellinearbuffer structs instead that having them in
>one)...
>
>It will be a nice killer application, both for GGI and for Linux... so
>think of it, if you can.
>
>For now I can't promise you that I work on it... it has been quite some
>time I last touched ggi (I completed two labs-assignment for
>university and I have to complete some other things before I can work on
>it)... I still also have to figure out how to use frame buffers. Maybe one
>day...
>
>Ciao.
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