OOps, sorry Pieter, i didn't click on the reply to all... oops. reposted for the whole list.
-----Original Message----- From: Gray, Tim Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2004 8:21 AM To: 'Pieter Grimmerink' Subject: RE: [Pgui-devel] maintenance of PicoGUI I also agree that PicoGUI in it's current state is a very elegant and wonderful piece of work. I have used it in several engineering "demonstrations" for the company for projects that never seemed to pan out but it always impressed the executive staff more thanthe windows CE guys based on the fact that it's faster, smaller, and almost cut's in 1/2 the hardware costs coupled with a small embedded linux. aside from that one of the biggest things I had trouble with was getting started using picogui from the developer standpoint. expanding the documentation, even possibly having a picogui input and an output driver howto, like a simple explination how to write a driver for a simple or theoretical device and interact with picogui would make a big difference as well as a more robust application development howto. remember many that would decide to use picogui are coming from the Microsoft side and therefore picogui seems extremely forign to them (Although much easier than X by far!). Micah, Picogui is something you need to be very proud of. tinyX and microwindows can't even hold a candle to it Opie is the only real competition and it requires 3X the hardware to do the same thing as well as lots of money to spend on QT embedded licensing. -----Original Message----- From: Pieter Grimmerink [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2004 5:36 PM To: Lalo Martins; PicoGUI list Subject: Re: [Pgui-devel] maintenance of PicoGUI On Wednesday 10 March 2004 21:04, Lalo Martins wrote: > As some of you probably know, PicoGUI is unmaintained; Micah is > very disapointed at the actual practical results of the project, > regardless of my continuous attempts to convince him that he > made a wonderful thing ;-) I have to agree, it is quite a piece of work. PicoGUI comes closest to our wishes to run a graphical server on a device with a very small display. The theme stuff makes it possible to run usable applications on an LCD sized 122x32 right out of the box. > What I propose is that we adopt a linux-like model. I and other > experienced developers (when they exist) can point people to > parts of the code here in the mailing list - sometimes even > Micah himself finds time to make a comment. Then patches are > sent to the list or the Collector, I review them and integrate. > Eventually, when things are interesting enough, we release. Sounds sensible to me. "something" has to be done to avoid that every potential new user is scared away. Regards, Pieter ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click _______________________________________________ Pgui-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pgui-devel ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click _______________________________________________ Pgui-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pgui-devel
