Robert Findlay wrote:
>
> Does anyone know if an equivalent to QNX Photon (ie. reasonably small,
> reasonably fast GUI engine) exists in the Linux world?
>
> We do lots of work where customers need a GUI embedded (touch screens etc.)
> with the application in smallish memory boxes. Most people are saying
> that Xwindows is too big and too resource intensive to consider for such
> things.
>
> I'd appreciate hearing from those who have tried embedded GUI's in Linux.
I am also developing on a GUI embedded system and was looking for a
small and
fast solution to do graphics. After some time I came back to the
Xwindows.
I think its NOT too resource intensive or slow because memory and CPU
power
are rapidly growing resources. (Its hard to find a PC-104 CPU board with
less
than 8 MB RAM and that is pretty enough).
If you reduce to the minimum needs, disk space for Xwindows is about 5
MB.
That is: Xserver 3 MB, Xlibs 1 MB, fonts etc. 500 kB.
I recommend to use a comfortable graphics library like QT
(http://www.troll.no)
which adds 2 MB for the library.
The system resources needed for that are much cheeper than an other
really
expensive resource: developing time!
Walter Berthold
Rohmann GmbH Frankenthal
Germany
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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