Re: [iPAQ] FLTK, NanoX and Microwindows?

On 23/10/00 4:22 pm, Nils Faerber (nils@kernelconcepts.de) wrote:

> Wasn't there some public diskspace planned for handhelds.org so that people
> can
> upload stuff for public download?
> If yes I would contribute iPaq ready FLNX and microwindows (nano-X) binaries!

Set up a handhelds.org sourceforge project for it?

>
> You and many others put a lot of work into the X11 version which only a very
> limited number of PDAs can make use of. This will result in at least two Linux
> PDA trees, one for small scale PDAs and one for the bigger ones. Applications
> for typical PDA use are rare enough for Linux, why force this work to be done
> twice?

Until I really got my head together on this, I agreed with your viewpoint.

When I saw Jim's message earlier about the size of Tiny-X with Keith
Packard's cool stuff linked in, my only objection was silenced. 700k +
whatever is needed to emulate Nano-X on the more capable devices doesn't
seem expensive as a portability strategy - and there's still the possibility
of addressing both targets at some library layer.

In particular, the potential uses for alpha transparency and antialiased
fonts are far too many to reject.

> So what reasons are there left for using X11?

Proven code is surely the biggy. Oh, and the fact that the people who
designed huge chunks of it are on the project? :)

Mike

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