nanogui: nanogui widget set


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Subject: Re: nanogui widget set
From: Alan Cox ####@####.####
Date: 16 Jun 1999 12:57:01 -0000
Message-Id: <E10uF9O-0008O3-00@the-village.bc.nu>

> 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.

If you want it to look like Windows, which for a PDA is questionable in
some ways. Scaling a free TTF font to the same size and digitizing it isnt
too hard.

> 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

Itsy is 2.2.x now I believe. It has fbcon and X11 running on it. No keyboard
but has a pen input interface and a tilt sensor.

Alan


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