nanogui: X11 on Helio?
Subject:
Re: X11 on Helio?
From:
Joe deBlaquiere ####@####.####
Date:
25 Jan 2001 01:46:39 -0000
Message-Id: <3A6F8701.5060602@redhat.com>
FYI : I think most if not all of the Agenga apps are ftlk-based. They
look very good. The thing is that TinyX is basically still 1MB or so
bigger than nanoX, and developers for these systems should always
consider themselves to be extremely resource constrained. Even if I do
have 16MB of flash on my (very sexy) Agenda, I'd rather have another
megabyte of data or three more cutsie games than the 'real' X cursor at
startup. And it's the same story in RAM as Flash.
Of course that's just my opinion...
Greg Haerr wrote:
> : 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
>
>
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