Re: [directfb-dev] Gtk DirectFB backend

[Lionel Landwerlin <llandwerlin gmail com>]

Hi,

There is a bug report for this :
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=619468

Don't blame the embedded world.

Regards,

--
Lionel Landwerlin

Le mercredi 25 août 2010 à 12:22 -0700, Mike Emmel a écrit :
> 2010/8/25 Javier Jardón <jjardon gnome org>:
> > 2010/8/25 John Stowers <john stowers lists gmail com>:
> >>
> >> For Google, and those that find this thread brings bad news, I
> >> stumbled across a developers branch that gets Gtk+-2.20 working with
> >> DirectFB again.
> >
> >> [1] http://mail.directfb.org/pipermail/directfb-dev/2010-May/005704.html
> >> [2] http://git.potipota.net/cgi-bin/cgit.cgi/gtk+/log/?h=2.20-directfb-fixes
> >
> > I wonder why these patches were not submitted upstream
> >
> > --
> > Javier Jardón Cabezas
> >
> 
> I don't know but I do know Dennis the creator of DirectFB is swamped.
> In general he simply does not have the bandwidth to support Gtk.
> 
> If you dig deep into the archives you will see my posts from a few
> years ago with my
> plea for community support and nothing happened. Heck one person part
> time fixing bugs
> and taking submissions would have been sufficient to keep the port going.
> 
> The fact the embedded world did not feel they needed to do this speaks volumes.
> 
> But enough on that or I will start ranting :)
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