rtitmuss;255879 Wrote: > > I also don't understand where you get the idea of fatter Jive clients > from? Jive will always be leaner than Softsqueeze, it is after all > intended for 200MHz ARM devices with 64MB of memory! >
An SB3 is much like an old dumb VT100 terminal. All the intelligence is on the server side. With Jive, much of the intelligence is on the client side. The client is fatter. And the server side code is GPL, so I'm free to make changes to share with others, and I'm free to make changes on my own system that I don't share. And the server side Perl code is very hackable -- especially with APIs like addDispatch. I've seen conversations about things like trapping Jive events and wrapping/subclassing/etc., and the impression I get is that developers are free to add their own menu items within the Jive menu structure, but cannot override default behavior, and certainly not through published APIs. Combine the lack of published APIs with the unfriendly license and the clunky distribution model (the whole app is baked into a firmware binary object that includes a Linux distro), and tweaking a Jive client doesn't look very easy or fun. The Softsqueeze announcements suggest to me that the roadmap is to phase out truly thin clients like the SB3 and Tp in favor fatter, less open clients like the SBC. I hope that's not the case. Does that make a bit more sense? -- peterw http://www.tux.org/~peterw/ free plugins: http://www.tux.org/~peterw/#slim AllQuiet BlankSaver BottleRocket FuzzyTime SaverSwitcher SleepFade StatusFirst SyncOptions VolumeLock ------------------------------------------------------------------------ peterw's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2107 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41672 _______________________________________________ jive mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/jive
