Re: Throwing Gtk+ and DirectFB up against the wall to see what sticks:

["Jasper St. Pierre" <jstpierre mecheye net>]

GTK+ does not currently support DirectFB because nobody wanted to maintain the code to support it. If you want to revive the DirectFB backend, you're more than welcome to do it, but we probably will not add the DirectFB backend because we're worried about maintenance, and because DirectFB was never popular enough to warrant support.

In my personal opinion, you should look into Wayland, which GTK+ supports in an experimental state and will keep on supporting. It's a modern display architecture that has a lot of the advantages of DirectFB, with an active developer base and community, and was created and is backed by X server engineers, who understand the needs of system graphics best.  DirectFB was created long before this happened, and thus has legacy code and legacy APIs, and probably will never support some of the new kernel features like KMS/DRM.

On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 5:18 PM, Dan Rittersdorf <Dan Rittersdorf dornerworks com> wrote:

Hello,

 

I have a potential customer with an existing technology base using ilixi and DirectFB, running TimeSys Linux (2.6.x) on an i.MX53 from Freescale. (ARM Cortex A8)

The customer wants to develop a new product based on this platform, but wants the additional capabilities of Gtk+ 3.8.x without losing the advantages of DirectFB 1.6.3.

 

I know Gtk+ and DirectFB have been divorced for a few years, but Cairo still has some support for DirectFB, and Gtk uses Cairo…

 

The customer wants to restore the old Gtk on DirectFB capability.

 

Can anyone please describe your impression of why Gtk+ doesn’t support interaction with DirectFB today and what challenges you see in reconciling these products today?

 

Are you aware of any work being done in this capacity that I might be able to piggy back off of?

 

Thank you so much for your consideration.   I look forward to hearing from you.

 

 

Dan Rittersdorf DornerWorks, Ltd. Embedded Systems Engineering 3445 Lake Eastbrook Blvd SE Grand Rapids, MI  49546

Direct: 616.389.6137 Tel:      616.245.8369 Fax:     616.245.8372   Dan Rittersdorf DornerWorks com www.DornerWorks.com

 

 

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