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Re: White background in icons and WM integration
From: |
Pascal Bourguignon |
Subject: |
Re: White background in icons and WM integration |
Date: |
Tue, 4 Dec 2001 17:18:19 +0100 (CET) |
Tyson Whitehead <twhitehe@uwo.ca> wrote:
>
> > As such, I am looking into and seriously considering the idea of
> > creating a new graphical back-end which is tied to the framebuffer
> > device via the directfb project. As such, WindowMaker will not be
> > used, and a seperate Dock application will have to be written.
> >
> > If anybody has not heard of the directfb project, I recommend you
> > check it out at www.directfb.org It has some really fantastic
> > features, like MMX accelerated alpha-blending ( a good thing to
> > have for gnustep).
> >
> > Chad
>
> Was wondering what your thoughts were on the General Graphics Interface...
>
> http://www.ggi-project.org/
It does not use floats as coodinates, but ints. That means that when
you have a 1600x1200 15" lcd, you can't read anything on the screen,
and you can't point to the 16x16 pixel arrows in the scrolls.
The biggest advantage of (Display)Postscript is that it uses
floats. Therefore when you open a window of 4 in. x 3 in., you can
draw your stuff really device independently, without counting the
pixels. The only defect NeXTSTEP had was that it did not define the
scroll arrow as vector drawings, but as fixed resolution bitmaps.
>From the table of contents of the documentation at:
http://www.ggi-project.org/docs/ggi.html
I don't see anything related to remote displays (-NXHost).
The only positive point I see in GGI is the availability of 17 targets
(x, dga, aa, fbdev, file, directx, memory, svgalib, vcsa, monotext,
multi, palemu, tile, trueemu, vgl, sub).
Not much more than GEM.
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- White background in icons and WM integration, Frederico . S . Muñoz, 2001/12/03
- Re: White background in icons and WM integration, Dan Pascu, 2001/12/03
- Re: White background in icons and WM integration, Erik Dalen, 2001/12/03
- question - do most people just run the tip from CVS ?, Scott Francis, 2001/12/03
- Re: White background in icons and WM integration, Chris B . Vetter, 2001/12/03
- Re: White background in icons and WM integration, cehardin, 2001/12/04
- Re: White background in icons and WM integration, Richard Frith-Macdonald, 2001/12/04
- Re: White background in icons and WM integration, cehardin, 2001/12/04
- Re: White background in icons and WM integration, Tyson Whitehead, 2001/12/04
- Re: White background in icons and WM integration,
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- Re: White background in icons and WM integration, Tyson Whitehead, 2001/12/04
- Re: White background in icons and WM integration, Chris B . Vetter, 2001/12/04
- Re: White background in icons and WM integration, Björn Gohla, 2001/12/04
- Re: White background in icons and WM integration, Chris B . Vetter, 2001/12/04
- Re: White background in icons and WM integration, Gregory Casamento, 2001/12/04
- Re: White background in icons and WM integration, Nicola Pero, 2001/12/04
- Re: White background in icons and WM integration, Richard Frith-Macdonald, 2001/12/04
- Re: White background in icons and WM integration, Dan Pascu, 2001/12/04
- Re: White background in icons and WM integration, Chris B . Vetter, 2001/12/04
- Re: White background in icons and WM integration, Dan Pascu, 2001/12/04