On Nov 14, 2003, at 10:54 AM, Alex Perez wrote:
Folks,
I'm just wondering if anyone was working on either of these backends
currently. I know someone came in here a while back saying that they
had a
commercial need to have the win32 backend working, and I'm hoping
that
that person would de-lurk and just give me (or us, publically) a
status
update if they've successfully done any work, or even just done an
analysis of what needs to be done.
On the subject of the DirectFB backend, I think Chad Hardin had been
working on this, and I'm just wondering if there is any foreward
movement
there. Last I remember, Chad had found something out about DirectFB's
design that he didn't like, and I haven't heard anything more about
the
project since then, so I can only assume that he stopped work at that
point. Unfortunate, but his choice.
Chad: Are you still working on the DirectFB backend? If not, why
not? Do
you have plans to write a backend for the Linux Framebuffer directly?
No, I stopped the DirectFB backend because I didn't like the
cooperative
resource locking scheme it used for supporting multiple applications.
One
app can lock everything, if I'm understanding the source correctly.
I still like the idea of getting rid of X. But on the other hand
some really
great things are being worked on for X right now, which makes it not
so bad
anymore.
I would like to still work on alternatives to X but the problem is
the same
as it always is: time. Right now I'm working full time, my wife and
I go to
school full time, and we got two little tykes (ages 3 & 5) running
around
like crazy!
Anyhow, I've had to shift priorities, and the X replacement is at the
bottom
:-(
Here's what I'm working on:
The SGSTEP Debian repository.
An installer App for SGSTEP
Shoving these two things together into a install disc
&
my newest passion: simplygnustep.com/net/org and sgstep.com/net/org:
simplygnustep.com will be the regular web site
&
sgstep.com will be something very similar to .Mac!
I already have the domains and the static IPs, I'm jsut waiting on
the
hardware and a lot of tinkering to get it to work.
Back to X. I think the best route to take may be to keep on using
X11. With
an alternative project of using DRI for something similar to an Apple
Quartz
extreme windowserver some time in the future. That's just me though,
I don't
think the gnustep project itself should shift from X11. Resources
are
already tight as it is without venturing off into new projects.
That's serious work though, plus the linux video stuff is going
through some
hefty change/fixes, making it a bit of a moving target.
I know someone had done some preliminary work on a CairoGraphics
backend
as well. How has this progressed, if at all?
This would be very nice!
Cheers,
Alex Perez
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