Re: From "Re: Video Memory" to politics and Linus

[Jon M. Taylor]

On Tue, 28 Nov 2000, Christoph Egger wrote:

> 
> On Tue, 28 Nov 2000, Stefan Seefeld wrote:
> 
> > James Simmons wrote:
> > > 
> > > > > It is really cool that things like Berlin are being developed, but there
> > > > > is no software for it. No office tools, no scientific software, no games,
> > > > > nothing but a couple of proof of concept programs.
> > > 
> > > What about porting GTK and Qt to Berlin. Once those are ported you have
> > > all the KDE and GNOME apps.
> > 
> > Indeed. I did the first step by providing embeddable GGI visuals in the berlin
> > scene graph. Now someone 'only' needs to port gtk and qt to GGI. That should be a
> > straight forward (though hard work involving) tasks, as both already run without X.
> > 
> > Volunteers are welcome. Big prizes for the first to finish :)
> 
> How about convincing Trolltech itself to port their Qt to GGI?

        There is already 'Embedded QT' which runs on top of a dumb
framebuffer device....

Jon

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