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[Dillo-users]Dillo and PicoGUI

[Pascal B. <pas...@sm...>]

Hello,

I am looking for a tiny-footprint web browser for our mobile platforms. I found Dillo, and it gave me a very good first impression.

We are using PicoGUI, not GTK (http://pgui.sf.net). I am wondering whether a PicoGUI port could be envisaged.

Best regards,

   Pascal

-- 
Pascal Bauermeister
Head of Software Development

SMARTDATA
PSE-A / EPFL
CH-1015 Lausanne

http://www.smartdata.ch
mailto:pas...@sm...
Phone: +41 (21) 693 84 98
fax:   +41 (21) 693 84 91

Re: [Dillo-users]Dillo and PicoGUI

[Livio B. S. <li...@im...>]

Hello Pascal!

Pascal Bauermeister writes:
> Hello,
> 
> I am looking for a tiny-footprint web browser for our mobile platforms. I 
> found Dillo, and it gave me a very good first impression.

Cool!

> We are using PicoGUI, not GTK (http://pgui.sf.net). I am wondering whether 
> a PicoGUI port could be envisaged.

  Aie... that's kind of hard :( Some other people, also interested in
mobile platforms (handhelds of various sorts), have previously asked
about separating current Dillo core from it's GUI, so that they could
use other libs besides GTK+. 

  Well, if you ever get around looking at the code, you'll see that
Dillo is tightly based on Glib, GDK and GTK+. All the widgets, lots of
structure, etc, etc. You see, Dillo wasn't made to run specifically on
such small platform, and I believe the creators of Gzilla (where Dillo
came from) wanted to use GLib plus GTK+ because of their portability
and lightness. The current Dillo developers are not, therefore, very
interested in this issue (I think). Hey, but the code _is_ there ;-)

  Here are some past threads on dillo-dev you might find useful to
read:

http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=878826
(specially William Kendrick's post)

http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=878935

  good luck to you!

--  
  Livio <li...@im...>

Re: [Dillo-users]Dillo and PicoGUI

[Pascal B. <pas...@sm...>]

Hello Livio,

thank you for your answer.

I did expect that the code relies closely on GTK+. The pen usage issue do not scare me al lot. Instead, I am looking for a small, efficient, light, robust, simple to use and extendable browser, which could become the general document viewer (documents would be kept simple to ease the browser), and even replace the desktop.

If you know another open-source (competitor ;-) ) project that could do the job, please tell me.

Anyway, kudos for the great work.

   Pascal


PS. the TuxScreen community (http://www.tuxscreen.net/) could be interested in your browser. I don't know if they have GTK (but since the hardware has similarities with the iPaq, it may be possible).



Livio Baldini Soares wrote:

> Hello Pascal!
> 
> Pascal Bauermeister writes:
> 
>>Hello,
>>
>>I am looking for a tiny-footprint web browser for our mobile platforms. I 
>>found Dillo, and it gave me a very good first impression.
>>
> 
> Cool!
> 
> 
>>We are using PicoGUI, not GTK (http://pgui.sf.net). I am wondering whether 
>>a PicoGUI port could be envisaged.
>>
> 
>   Aie... that's kind of hard :( Some other people, also interested in
> mobile platforms (handhelds of various sorts), have previously asked
> about separating current Dillo core from it's GUI, so that they could
> use other libs besides GTK+. 
> 
>   Well, if you ever get around looking at the code, you'll see that
> Dillo is tightly based on Glib, GDK and GTK+. All the widgets, lots of
> structure, etc, etc. You see, Dillo wasn't made to run specifically on
> such small platform, and I believe the creators of Gzilla (where Dillo
> came from) wanted to use GLib plus GTK+ because of their portability
> and lightness. The current Dillo developers are not, therefore, very
> interested in this issue (I think). Hey, but the code _is_ there ;-)
> 
>   Here are some past threads on dillo-dev you might find useful to
> read:
> 
> http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=878826
> (specially William Kendrick's post)
> 
> http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=878935
> 
>   good luck to you!
> 
> --  
>   Livio <li...@im...>
> 
> 



-- 
Pascal Bauermeister
Head of Software Development

SMARTDATA
PSE-A / EPFL
CH-1015 Lausanne

http://www.smartdata.ch
mailto:pas...@sm...
Phone: +41 (21) 693 84 98
fax:   +41 (21) 693 84 91