nanogui: GTK Ideas
Subject:
Re: GTK Ideas
From:
"Jason Scannell" ####@####.####
Date:
17 Jun 1999 17:23:05 -0000
Message-Id: <004901beb8e5$5fa62c60$1000000a@stcl1.mi.home.com>
> Gtk is probably too big for a low end PDA, thats just how things go.
By removing the themes you can save a lot of memory which might otherwise be
used by bitmaps, both in RAM and peristent storage. There isn't a lot of
memory to go around and performance may also be a consideration. By
rewriting GTK the size could be reduced considerably if for no other reason
than it being a rewrite. Just consider the size of micro-Windows. It might
even be possible for it share widgets with micro-Windows. I feel that a GTK
compatible library would be very important for porting purposes as well as
keeping some kind of common standard widget API between X and nano-X.
As far as target machines go I would like to see this all running on 4mb
mono device (assuming the kernel + nano-X + widget libraries are in ROM or
Flash memory). I see no reason why this wouldn't be possible even with a
GTK compatible widget library.
Jason
