nanogui: NanoX version 0.3 released
Subject:
RE: NanoX version 0.3 released
From:
Alexander Peuchert ####@####.####
Date:
11 May 1999 09:37:44 -0000
Message-Id: <Pine.GSO.4.02.9905111127360.24754-100000@rumburak>
On Tue, 11 May 1999, Alex Holden wrote:
> On Tue, 11 May 1999, Alexander Peuchert wrote:
> > If I understand you correctly, you are planning nanoX like this.
> > nano server <-> nano API <-> GDK to NanoLib <-> GTK+ <-> all GTK apps
>
> That was the original idea, yes. You could replace "GDK to NanoLIB" with
> something smaller, or an application, if you were short on memory.
>
> > My proposal would be:
> > nano server <-> nano API looking like GDK <-> GTK+ <-> all GTK apps
>
> Well, if we're going to do a GDK layer, we might as well make it _exactly_
> like GDK. How about:
>
> > nano server <-> nano API looking like a cut down GDK <-> thin GDK
> compatibility layer, other toolkit or app <-> other apps
Well, with a cut down GDK not exactly like the original GDK, GTK apps wont
run ...
>
> Ie. make the nano-X interface as close to GDK as possible without bloating
> it with non-essential GDK features.
You/We could provide the complete GDK API, but provide dummy functions for
parts that aren't supported.
( Alan Cox told me, that some madman ported GDK to curses. So it should be
doable to leave out functionality ... )
>
> --------------- Linux- the choice of a GNU generation. --------------
> : Alex Holden (M1CJD)- Caver, Programmer, Land Rover nut, Radio Ham :
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>
Again my proposal:
nano server <-> nano/GDK API <-> simple apps
nano server <-> nano/GDK API <-> small toolkit <-> apps for small comps
nano server <-> nano/GDK API <-> GTK <-> many cool apps
nano server <-> nano/GDK API <-> GTK <-> GNOME <-> really, realy memory consuming apps
The small toolkit is proposed, as GTK eats up 10meg of diskspace and
wouldn't be appropriate for a PDA.
- alex
Alexander Peuchert
####@####.####
http://www.peuchert.de ( not very interesting yet ;-) )
