RE: Asking for advice on embedded gtk guiand web browser.

["Li Weichen" <iaadoa gmail com>]

Hi Florian,

Thanks for your kind reply.  And I have decided to use Maemo as the GUI and
dillo as my browser.  But there is something that I still don't quite
understand.

I know that Maemo is based on GTK libraries and so is dillo, but the version
of the libs that the two above requires seems different.  Does it matter?

Li Weichen

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Florian Boor [mailto:florian boor kernelconcepts de]
> Sent: Sunday, March 12, 2006 7:51 PM
> To: Li Weichen
> Cc: gtk-list gnome org
> Subject: Re: Asking for advice on embedded gtk guiand web browser.
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Li Weichen wrote:
> 
> > 1. Is gtk a name of GUI?  If it is, can it be properly cross compiled
for
> > embedded use?
> 
> Yes, crosscompiling GTK works pretty well.
> 
> > 2. Is there any ready to use embedded gtk GUI?
> 
> There are several projects creating lightweight GUIs based on GTK. For a
mobile
> device with low resources and a small screen you might want to take a look
at
> GPE (http://gpe.handhelds.org, the website is a little bit outdated).
> There is a ready made cross toolchain to build GPE applications for ARM
devices
> as well.
> 
> > 3. Because I want to use it in a networking device, so could you please
> > recommend me an embedded web browser?
> 
> There are several options, but no perfect one. Dillo is very small and
stable
> but lacks many features, gpe-mini-browser (based on GtkWebcore) has a
better
> rendering engine but isn't free of bugs either. If you have a little bit
more
> memory Minimo might be interesting too.
> 
> > 4. The device has 32MB RAM, is it enough for the gtk GUI?
> 
> Yes, but i'd recommend to use GTK 2.6.x.
> 
> You will find out that crosscompiling all the software is a nasty job,
> especially if you want to get a maintainable filesystem. There are quite
some
> powerful tools to help you with this. Scratchbox is interesting for
> development,
> for creating filesystems T2 and OpenEmbedded are useful.
> 
> I hope this helps...
> 
> Greetings
> 
> Florian
> 
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