Re: New OS to use gnustep!

[Lundberg, Johannes]

Hi 

Thank you very much for the positive replies.

I'd love to participate in the next meeting. I will make sure I can be there in person.

Regarding which libraries we need. Since we making a completely new device with new input systems we were also thinking about creating a new UI API from scratch but that is still under consideration.

Currently we are extending NSWIndow, NSView, etc for our "AppKit". Since GNUstep is GPL we have to consider which parts we can implement into GNUstep and keep open and which parts we keep proprietary. Of course, we want to contribute as much as we can to GNUstep.

For the demo apps we did for MWC I tried using both CG and CA libraries (opal) available but performance was too poor so I ended up using AppKit (NSView, NSBezierPath and so on) with cairo as backend. I tried activating cairo's OpenGL backend support but without success so we used X as backend for cairo.

At this time we are running our system on an Intel based laptop but the goal is to run on a small ARM-based device so OpenGL ES is the way to go. Core GL implementation is also interesting.

Thanks again!


Johannes

On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 12:19 AM, Ivan Vučica <ivucica@gmail.com> wrote:

On 4. 3. 2013., at 16:10, Richard Frith-Macdonald <richard@tiptree.demon.co.uk> wrote:

We're planning on having a developer meeting in Cambridge, probably at the end of June: it would be great if you could send someone along.  

That sounds really good to me ... I'd like to get to Cambridge then (possibly bringing family) for the hackathon.  Currently I'm free the last two weekends in June and the first in July (possibly I could take some time off during the week), but it would help if we had firmer dates.

Just so it's known: I'd love to join, and I think I'd be free at the end of June, but financial situation is blocking me from attending any meetings anywhere outside Croatia.

If anything changes, I'll chime in.

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