[rox-devel] DirectFB

[Guillaume L. <gl...@fo...>]

Hi all,

I've been thinking that it might be a good idea to port ROX on DirectFB 
(for those who don't know this project, it's a thin graphic library 
sitting on top of the linux framebuffer); indeed, DFB aims at replacing 
X on small or embarqued device/systems with limited resources - or just 
for regular users who consider X's network transparency and all as a 
useless overhead for their usage.
I guess it'd be cool to have a lean and mean filer on such systems...

I don't really know the internals of ROX, but as far as I understood it 
relies mainly on GTK+-2.0, which has been ported to DirectFB already 
(that is, people of DirectFB wrote a gdk backend with libdirectfb).

Actually, I tried to compile ROX myself against my gtk+-directfb-2.0 
lib, but was stopped by the fact ROX needs some X11 specific gtk2 
includes (namely gdkx.h).
Could this be patched or is ROX conceptually bound to X11 ? I am 
dreaming (well, almost, heh) of having a Linux-ix86-directfb directory 
sitting next to Linux-ix86 in my ROX Appdir...

Thanks,
GL