* Michael Torrie <torr...@gmail.com> schrieb: Hi,
> Why would you want to use directfb when a tiny X server is the > same footprint and much better supported? Which one are you talking about ? Kdrive ? How good is it supported, especially on non-x86 platforms ? Xwindow generelly has several design drawbacks due its history and doesn't scale particular well in constrainted local-only applications, compared to Dfb+fusion. > directfb is redundant. I hope you're not using it. I *am* using it, and it's far from being redundant. > It reimplements (poorly) everything that X11 already does, > like windows and events. No, not everything that X11, and for its purpose far more efficient. > > Qt is even worse than gtk. > > That's news to Nokia. Not only do they use it in Linux environment on > their phones, they have also ported it to Symbian and it will become > their main platform. Well, their decision. Smartphone GUIs are actually not the ideal candidate for the machine code paradigm, especially if you want things like 3rd-party applets, etc. Better take Android there. cu -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http://www.metux.de/ phone: +49 36207 519931 email: weig...@metux.de mobile: +49 151 27565287 icq: 210169427 skype: nekrad666 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Embedded-Linux / Portierung / Opensource-QM / Verteilte Systeme ---------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ gtk-devel-list mailing list gtk-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-devel-list