Bug#339855: Some options for a shell under g-i

[Attilio Fiandrotti <fiandro@tiscalinet.it>]

Davide Viti wrote:
> At the Extremadura meeting we did a little bit of research on possible
> options for having a shell on G-I; linking will have to be done
> against the gtk+-directfb libs rather than standard gtk+.
> Should be fairly easy to use one the following:
>
> * vte (see [1])
> footprint seems to be about 800Kb, IMO far too big for our needs
> (haven't played with compile options, so there might be a set of
> options which might save some space)
>
> * dfbterm (see [2])
> part of the Directfb project, around 120Kb.
> I just compiled it: it needs "lite" ([3]) for compiling and libutil at
> runtime. It's possible to remove the dependency from lite (this is
> what dok said).
> Attilio will run some tests with this.

As davide said, VTE is really too big, and i worry it won't work at all 
without X (even if compiled against GTKDFB instead of GTKX)
Dennis said he's going to provide us soon a small GTK widget that wraps 
the DFBTerm so that we can incapsulate it into the GTK frontend.
In the case we had to spawn multiple processes, are there news about the 
packaging of the Fusion kernel module (i know that Sven was working on 
this at the Extremadura meeting)?

> The general idea is to use tabs (like firefox does for example), so
> that on the main tab is displayed the g-i, and on other tabs we can
> use the terminals, reachable with a simple mouse click rather than via
> ctrl-alt-f?.

ATM, this seems to me the best approach and we'll have to also modify 
the mainmenu so that it no longer displays the "Execute a shell" option.

ciao

Attilio