nanogui: nanogui widget set
Subject:
RE: nanogui widget set
From:
"Darran D. Rimron" ####@####.####
Date:
16 Jun 1999 12:23:54 -0000
Message-Id: <NCBBLCEDENCINNMFNPBCKEMECMAA.darran@rimron.co.uk>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alex Holden ####@####.####
> Sent: 16 June 1999 12:53
> To: Darran D. Rimron
> Cc: ####@####.#### ####@####.####
>
> for those that really need their apps to look exactly the
> same on both MS and nano windows. If that isn't a requirement
> for you (it isn't for me), there's no problem with just
> using any of the X11 or Linux console fonts.
For some apps, the size of the font is *VERY* important, to the extent
that a pixel off in either height or width can screw the dialog boxes
quite heavily.... *shrug* it may be worth finding that free "almost
identical" font and using that as default. The closer to the "look and
feel" of /real/ windows, Nano has, the easier it's going to be to drop
it into the community of Microsoft Brainwashed folks.
Just out of interest, trolling about the web, Compaq are working on an
StrongARM based pocketPC with soft-keyboard called the Itsy[1], running
an open-source patched 2.0.30 kernel with GGI drivers. Sounds like a
prime target for nano-windows to me. The combo could make a *REAL* good
CE-device rival. If the itsy ever gets our of vapourware. :) When
NanoWIndows has a full widget and API set, it may be worth contacting
Compaq and seeing if they have any interest, they are already looking
for demo applications (other than the MPEG video player and Doom they
already have)
-Darran
[1] I have the URL here somewhere if anyone really wants it.
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