Re: [linux-fbdev] Re: Announce: DinX windowing system 0.2.0

Sven LUTHER (luther@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr)
Sat, 25 Dec 1999 11:28:20 +0100


On Fri, Dec 24, 1999 at 09:18:34PM +0000, Alex Buell wrote:
> > ...which is exactly what you want to do on small systems.
>
> The only things missing are bindings for toolkits such as GTK, Motif
> (hehe), which means you can write apps that runs both on X11 and DinX by
> simply recompiling - a huge plus when contending with PDAs such as Psion
> 5 and so on.

Gtk support should be quite easy to do, at least easier than motif i think.

Most work you have to do would be to adapt gdk, which is the part of gtk+
which wrapps Xlib, or other graphics libs on other systems (like windows,
beos, ...).

And gdk is not very big.

Friendly,

Sven LUTHER

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