Re: [directfb-dev] Gtk DirectFB backend

[Ilyes Gouta <ilyes gouta gmail com>]

Hi Lionel,

Can you tell us a bit more about the missing features and the
unfinished bits of the back-end in order to get gtk2+-2.20/directfb
swinging again?

-Ilyes Gouta

On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 8:49 PM, Lionel Landwerlin
<llandwerlin gmail com> wrote:
> 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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