On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 2:50 PM, haithem rahmani <haithem.rahm...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 6:03 PM, Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri > <barbi...@profusion.mobi> wrote: >> >> On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 1:37 PM, Iván Briano (Sachiel) >> <sachi...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 1:33 PM, Cedric BAIL <cedric.b...@free.fr> >> > wrote: >> >> On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 6:26 PM, Carsten Haitzler >> >> <ras...@rasterman.com> wrote: >> >>> On Wed, 13 Oct 2010 16:58:38 +0100 haithem rahmani >> >>> <haithem.rahm...@gmail.com> >> >>> said: >> >>>> > however I built ecore with "disable-ecore-evas-software-buffer" >> >>>> > flag. >> >>>> > > >> >>>> > > shall enable it ? >> >>>> > >> >>>> > yes. why did you disable it? dont --enable or --disable UNLESS you >> >>>> > know >> >>>> > exactly >> >>>> > what you are doing. defaults do the right thing. >> >>>> >> >>>> >> >>>> well actually I want to have EFL built purely against DirectfB >> >>>> that's why I disabled all option and enabled only the required ones. >> >>>> I rebuilt ecore enabling the "ecore-evas-software-buffer" and I got >> >>>> ewebkit >> >>>> built. >> >>>> >> >>>> thanks for your support. >> >>> >> >>> forget dfb. the dfb engine suport in evas is very basic and by now far >> >>> behind >> >>> software or opengl. as such i'm thinking of killing off all engines >> >>> except >> >>> software based ones or opengl. it's not worth the maintenance. no one >> >>> maintains >> >>> or works on the dfb engine. >> >> >> >> I bet that gustavo will wake up and cry for such a statement ! >> > >> > Finally something will wake up that lazy bastard! >> >> Nah! I don't care about DirectFB or software-16 anymore > > Hey Guys don't do it. already the GTK people already dropped the directfb > backend from GTK-3.0. > I'm working to port the EFL/directfb + ewebkit for set top boxes. > I think for set-tops what EFL/directfb is offering is good. > I didn't test yet but I may deliver some updates and fixes to the directfb > engines. > don't consider it as promesse :-). > Rasterman I remeber I gave you such a promess some times ago but really I > didn't find time. > but now I'll work to convince my boss to switch to EFL instead of GTK. > then I think I'll find the time for that.
People are doing that basically because nobody cares, or nobody cares to the point to make it worth. The STB argument is a recurrent one, actually I revamped the directfb due a client that was using it, but the contract is over and thus no motivation to do it anymore. If you look why STB used directfb, the reason was that they had stupid layered hardware that to make use of acceleration of each plane, with x11, would be a major PITA (although possible), then they all went to the directfb solution. But nowadays the world is moving to a saner solution, based on opengl-es 2 as people want effects and there are lots of driving efforts like google and apple TV. With these becoming "common" the price drops and nobody will care about fixed layer acceleration anymore.... and Evas already supports opengl-es. Another problem with directfb and its users is that most are unlikely to give stuff back. I know we did contribute everything back, but not every company is like that and people tend to build piles of patches on top of EFL that never went public. This reduces upstream motivation to maintain it even more :-) So let's put like this: if directfb engine is patched to make it pass all expedite tests, with proper map support and all, then we may keep it, otherwise it will be dropped. -- Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri http://profusion.mobi embedded systems -------------------------------------- MSN: barbi...@gmail.com Skype: gsbarbieri Mobile: +55 (19) 9225-2202 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Beautiful is writing same markup. Internet Explorer 9 supports standards for HTML5, CSS3, SVG 1.1, ECMAScript5, and DOM L2 & L3. Spend less time writing and rewriting code and more time creating great experiences on the web. Be a part of the beta today. http://p.sf.net/sfu/beautyoftheweb _______________________________________________ enlightenment-users mailing list enlightenment-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users
