Re: Suggestions needed for gtk frontend for cdebconf

[Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>]

On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 11:27:48PM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 10:28:43PM +0200, Sebastian Ley wrote:
> > Against libdirectfb:
> > - vt switching not supported. This is only for the moment, I just
> >   recieved word, that it is supported in the cvs version
> 
> i ask for support a long time ago but had no time to write a patch.
> 
> > - does not (yet?) support vga16fb 
> 
> why should it not support vga16fb? it uses plain fb devices and look on
> the accelerator id for additional things.
> 
> > Against X:
> > - larger than libdirectfb (is this true?)
> 
> /usr/lib/libdirectfb-0.9.so.18.0.0: 228kb
> /usr/lib/directfb-0.9.18/inputdrivers/libdirectfb_keyboard.so: 10kb
> /usr/lib/directfb-0.9.18/inputdrivers/libdirectfb_ps2mouse.so: 10kb
> /usr/lib/directfb-0.9.18/inputdrivers/libdirectfb_serialmouse.so: 9kb
> 
> /usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86: 1500kb

Notice that you could also use XDirectFB on top of libdirectfb.

Friendly,

Sven Luther