On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 3:40 AM, The Rasterman Carsten Haitzler <ras...@rasterman.com> wrote: > On Wed, 4 Feb 2009 21:14:06 -0800 David <corrupt_bin...@charter.net> said: > >> I am toying around with an embedded environment and E17 would be the >> perfect >> GUI. Someone told me e17 would run under directfb, but now I am seeing that >> they might have been wrong and only evas works with directfb. I understand >> that E17 is a window manager for X, but it would be so perfect. I also know >> I can run XdirectFB but running under directfb would be the best option. Am >> I right in deducing that the e17 shell environment and associated apps >> (modules, itask-ng, etc...) wont run under directfb at this time? Sorry if >> this is answered elsewhere, i searched and coulnt find an easy answer! >> >> Thank you in advance and thank you for such a great WM! > > correct. e is a wm - its for x. evas has dfb support. as such dfb's > acceleration has been found in the past to be poor and evas's own software > beats > it - ask gustavo. he was doing a set top box embedded project on an imx31. dfb > has accelerated drivers, but evas ended up performing better with its own > software under x11.
Sorry taking so long to reply, but yes, Raster and Ivan are right. If you want to see our tests, check out: http://profusion.mobi/node/11 Worth noting that there none of engines were accelerated (fb, directfb or x11). I'd not trade ease of use and development state of x11 if possible. Most applications and libraries were written for x11 and lead development happens there, so you will get more testing, fixes and optimizations there. And it's not a huge overhead as people claim. Nonetheless, you can use our libraries with FB, DirectFB or anything else, including Win32, just the window manager (adds border to windows and like) is tied to X11. -- Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri http://profusion.mobi embedded systems -------------------------------------- MSN: barbi...@gmail.com Skype: gsbarbieri Mobile: +55 (19) 9225-2202 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Create and Deploy Rich Internet Apps outside the browser with Adobe(R)AIR(TM) software. With Adobe AIR, Ajax developers can use existing skills and code to build responsive, highly engaging applications that combine the power of local resources and data with the reach of the web. Download the Adobe AIR SDK and Ajax docs to start building applications today-http://p.sf.net/sfu/adobe-com _______________________________________________ enlightenment-users mailing list enlightenment-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users
