Re: X for gnome mobile

[Jim Gettys <jg laptop org>]

On Thu, 2007-11-08 at 18:34 +0200, Sinan Can wrote:
> Hi Jim, 
>  
> Do you mean that we need kdrive no more? What do you think about the
> phone openmoko? Do they use kdrive or conventional x server?

I have no clue.  I don't know anything about openmoko.

Whether the space matters (mostly flash use) for you or not depends
strongly on how much RAM/FLASH you have (generally flash is more of an
issue than RAM usage, as the paging system figures out what code you
need in RAM decently.  We cared a lot when we had but 16 meg of flash in
devices.

YMWV == Your Milage Will Vary....
                                   - Jim

>  
> --
> Sinan Can
> 
> 
> On Nov 8, 2007 6:22 PM, Jim Gettys <jg laptop org> wrote:
>         Note there is nothing particularly magic about the kdrive
>         server; these
>         days, mobile devices will often have enough memory that
>         running a 
>         "regular" X server is not an issue, and some of the extensions
>         one may
>         want for some circumstances are not available in kdrive.
>          Kdrive does
>         have a significantly smaller footprint than the "conventional"
>         X server. 
>         
>         Back when Keith did kdrive, we were living on Itsy/iPAQ
>         devices of 16
>         meg of ram...
>                                        - Jim
>         
>         
>         On Thu, 2007-11-08 at 16:11 +0000, Ross Burton wrote:
>         > On Thu, 2007-11-08 at 17:57 +0200, Sinan Can wrote:
>         > > My master thesis will be about porting gnome mobile to
>         symbian os. But 
>         > > I am totally new to gnome mobile. Can you please guide me?
>         I tried to
>         > > check X server used in gnome mobile but it direc
>         > ts me to X.org. I
>         > > couldn't find the mobile version there. Does this mean
>         there is no 
>         > > special version used in gnome mobile? If no, can you
>         please show me
>         > > where I can download the source code of x server used in
>         embedded
>         > > systems.
>         >
>         > Download x.org, and simply enable the "kdrive" server.
>         >
>         > Ross
>         
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