GTK frontend: call for testing the directframebuffer environment
Hi
as you may know the gtk frontend of the debian-installer is mostly
working since it basically works (tought it still needs some improvements)
https://debian.polito.it/downloads/d-i_gtk_snapshots/
actually all those snapshot were taken on an X environment: up till some
weeks ago X was the only working environment where the gtk frontend
could be run.
Anyway Mike Emmel has managed to insert directframebuffer support inside
gtk 2.7 and Davide Viti has precompiled those gtkdfb libs
https://debian.polito.it/downloads/dfb_2.7.0-3.tgz
those libs usually work well for compiling & running generic gtk apps.
even the d-i gtk frontend compiles fine but there are still some
problems to solve
http://mail.directfb.org/pipermail/directfb-dev/2005-July/000442.html
If we still plan to move from X to DFB as soon as it's possible (as soon
as GTKDFB are stable enough) it would be great speedup in development if
someone could test the gtk fe inside a dfb environment.
I would like also to know what are the plans to pack the frontend and
the choosed environment (X or DFB, the one we'll choose) inside the
netinst cd.
Since etch is out now we should start to think on how to relase the gtk
installer
ciao
attilio
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