On Friday 09 September 2005 01:25 pm, Brian J. Murrell wrote: > On Fri, 2005-09-09 at 14:16 -0300, Kyle Kelly wrote: > > I seem to remember reading somewhere that qt4 has support for installing > > without the gui functionality, and that this could possibly be used to > > make mythbackend not require X when it is eventually ported to qt4. > > Well there is that too. The Gnu folks got this right a long time ago > when they separated glib and gtk. > > But that is not really what I mean. What I am saying is that X is way > too big a hammer for the job. DirectFB is much better suited at the > kind of space that Myth is in -- the STB. But that would take QT being > able to run on DirectFB which AFAIK it does not. :-( QT-Embedded (or > whatever it is) is too far in the other direction. It does not have > hardware acceleration (and other video card) suport that DirectFB has.
Last I checked, DirectFB was pretty lacking in the hardware support area, too. Isaac
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