Bug#305701: RFP: fbui -- FBUI is a small, in-kernel graphical user interface
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
* Package name : fbui
Version : 0.9.14b
Upstream Author : plinius@comcast.net
* URL : http://home.comcast.net/~plinius/fbui.html
* License : GPL
Description : FBUI is a small, in-kernel graphical user interface
(Include the long description here.)
FBUI is a small, in-kernel graphical user interface for Linux. It
permits you to put windows in each framebuffer-based virtual console, to
read keyboard input and track a mouse pointer. Each process may have
more than one window.
FBUI exists for three reasons:
1. FBUI reduces software bloat because it implements a simple
windowing system in a small, 32 kilobyte driver. Liberation from
bloat is desirable for a number of reasons explained below.
2. FBUI assists people who are prohibited from using X Windows
because they are using resource-limited platforms such as old
computers and embedded devices. On these, X is an impossible
burden, but a vanilla framebuffer may be too primitive. FBUI is
"just right", and libfbui makes using FBUI even easier to use by
providing abstractions and additional functions.
3. The traditional GUI of Linux -- X Windows -- is unlike any
other subsystem in Linux in that the video drivers it uses are
located within itself outside the kernel. Notice, normally
Linux drivers and vital subsystems such as keyboard, printer,
filesystem, usb, etc. are all located inside the kernel. FBUI
simply puts the graphics driver where it belongs: inside the
kernel with all the other drivers.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux highfield 2.6.10-1-686 #1 Tue Jan 18 04:34:19 EST 2005 i686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C
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