Re: [rox-devel] DirectFB

[Thomas L. <ta...@ec...>]

On Wed, Oct 06, 2004 at 08:05:27PM +0200, Guillaume Lovet wrote:
> 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...

You'll have to find out whether there are equivalents. Try removing the
include and see what breaks. There's also an XDirectFB X server that ROX
should work with directly.


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