Re: Wheelbarrow example with Gtkmm on DirectFB

[José Alburquerque <jaalburquerque cox net>]

Jonathon Jongsma said the following:
> On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 7:47 PM, Daniel Elstner
> <daniel kitta googlemail com> wrote:
>   
> > Am Mittwoch, den 11.02.2009, 12:05 -0500 schrieb José Alburquerque:
> >
> >     
> > > It works fine on this setup.  Maybe there something about using DirectFB
> > > as opposed to X11.
> > >       
> > Most definitely there is.
> >
> > In fact, I'm surprised the DirectFB backend of GTK+ still works at all.
> > Last I heard, it's been bitrotting for quite a while now, and is
> > expected to be broken.
> >
> > --Daniel
> >
> >
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>
>
> Isn't it used in (for instance) the debian installer?
>   

I just checked and the debian installer does seem to use it (according 
to this bug report[1]).  Still downloading the tarball from the 
freshmeat project page[2] and looking at its most recent ChangeLog 
entry, it is dated 11/20/2002.

[1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=405737
[2] http://freshmeat.net/projects/gtk-directfb

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José Alburquerque
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