Re: [patch] SVGAlib fixes

[David K. <dvd...@gm...>]

>>>>> "Ethan" == Ethan Merritt <merritt@u.washington.edu> writes:

> I am happy to accept the patches to term.c and linux.trm, but ...

>> (Gtk and Qt can work this way).

> Wouldn't it be more interesting to see if the Qt terminal driver in
> gnuplot CVS can be used on this device?  It was my understanding that
> it was developed partly to support the sort of device you describe.

> I haven't seen much discussion or feedback about qt.trm, so maybe
> people haven't noticed it yet.  On a normal desktop machine it doesn't
> seem to have any particular advantage over the wxgtk-based wxt.trm,
> but on a small device it might be an entirely different story.

Actually I gave qt a try with PLplot, but it kept crashing, so when I
gave up and started a GNUplot port, I didn't bother to test the qt
driver.  Also Qt seems to start some kind of a mini window manager
(called QWS) when running directly on the console, so startup time and
memory usage are nowhere close to SVGAlib.  Especially considering that
I want to use gnuplot as a plotting backend for Octave, memory footprint
needs to stay down (only 32MB RAM, no swap on the Nanonote).

cheers,

David
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