nanogui: X11 on Helio?
Subject:
Re: X11 on Helio?
From:
Joe deBlaquiere ####@####.####
Date:
25 Jan 2001 02:37:09 -0000
Message-Id: <3A6F8E2A.8090908@redhat.com>
Actually I was thinking that I would port nanoX to my Agenda (really
just compile, since it uses the linuxvr framebuffer, /dev/tpanel,
/dev/vrbutons, etc..), but I guess to each his own ;o)
You can browse the apps from:
http://cvs.agendacomputing.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/
Greg Haerr wrote:
> Perhaps we should compile up the fltk Agenda apps and see what
> they look like under Microwindows.. Anybody got a pointer to the
> source?
>
> Regards,
>
> Greg
>
>
> : 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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