While we're discussing lower level graphics API I would like to ask one more thing.
What would it take to run GNUstep on DirectFB instead of X? Is this possible at this time? Johannes Lundberg BRILLIANTSERVICE CO., LTD. <http://www.brilliantservice.co.jp> On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 7:57 AM, Ivan Vučica <ivuc...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thank you! > > All assistance will be greatly appreciated. > > On 24. 4. 2013., at 23:56, Fred Kiefer <fredkie...@gmx.de> wrote: > > I thought again and I may be able to stand in as a backup mentor for your > project. Not the main mentor, joining in later this summer to help out. I > will try to register as a mentor, but you will still need an official > mentor. Apart for the usual candidates as Richard and Greg I would like to > suggest Eric and Niels. They both were excellent students at the GSoC > themselves and would be able to pass on that experience to other students. > And they are highly knowledgeable in the area. > > Fred > > On 24.04.2013 13:44, Ivan Vučica wrote: > > First, thanks everyone for support and ideas! > > On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 12:02 AM, Fred Kiefer <fredkie...@gmx.de> wrote: > > Hi Ivan > > I had long ago decided that I wont mentor for GSoC this year, but your > mail led me to rethink that position. Your proposal is very convincing and > would be highly beneficial for GNUstep. ... > > Sorry, but I wont be able to step in here. Hopefully somebody else in the > GNUstep community will. > > > Thanks! > > Best wishes and hope to see you in Cambridge, > > > > Ditto! > > On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 9:31 AM, David Chisnall <thera...@sucs.org> wrote: > > On 22 Apr 2013, at 21:43, Ivan Vučica <ivuc...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Ping! Student registrations have started. Any prospective mentors? > > > I've registered as a mentor. I'd also be most interested in the back end > being refactored to support using Opal. > > > Based on feedback everyone gave, yes, the importance of this (and the > importance of integration with Core Animation) seems to be the consensus. > > Currently, basic idea that I have is to copy the entire Cairo backend (or > maybe use derived classes, although long-term that seems a bad idea) and > ensure that every Cairo surface is instead backed with an Opal context. I'd > temporarily expose the Cairo surface from the Opal context, and ensure that > calls are directed to the Cairo surface backing the Opal context instead of > to the Cairo surface inside the backend. > > Then, I'd be removing the Cairo surface from the backend and replacing > Cairo calls with Opal calls. > > Finally, I would be continuously looking at options for integrating Core > Animation with AppKit (based on feedback). > > I'll probably need more supervision compared to implementation of UIKit, > but this is definitely a more useful long-term project for GNUstep. > > I'll put together a proposal, register it on GSoC's Melange, and also send > it to the mailing list. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Gnustep-dev mailing list > Gnustep-dev@gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnustep-dev > > > -- > Ivan Vučica > i...@vucica.net - http://ivan.vucica.net/ > > > _______________________________________________ > Gnustep-dev mailing list > Gnustep-dev@gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnustep-dev > >
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