nanogui: X11 on Helio?
Subject:
Re: X11 on Helio?
From:
"Greg Haerr" ####@####.####
Date:
24 Jan 2001 17:41:37 -0000
Message-Id: <02cd01c0862c$9177bb80$15320cd0@gregh>
: With enough encouragement, I will look into it myself, and then start
: thinking about having MicroWindows/NanoX running under together.
:
: It might be the case that we are not in an XOR situation with respect to
: NanoX vs. X11, performance issues notwithstanding.
Having Microwindows run on top of X11 will be too slow, I believe.
On smaller systems with < 8mb ram, X will be just too large.
However, one solution planned for Microwindows/X11 app interoperability
is the use of the FLTK and Century's FLNX applications
framework. If applications are written using FLNX, then they should
run on either platform without modification. (The key word here
is "should," since FLNX isn't completely finished yet, but that's
the idea.) The ViewML browser uses FLNX, and it compiles
up on both X11 and Microwindows and runs well. As an example
of the differences, the X version uses IMLIB, which is a large
image decoding library. The Microwindows version uses a
much smaller image decoding library built into Microwindows. This
one difference is handled above the FLNX layer.
Regards,
Greg
