Re: gnome-desktop on omap3

["Amit Pundir" <pundiramit gmail com>]

Thank you very much for your help.

Directfb is not a strict requirement.
Thats why I started building gnome for X11 back-end today using
original sources as I was not aware of "linux.onarm.com" resources.

Thanks again for the help.

Regards
Amit Pundir



On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 5:56 PM,  <sampo nurmentaus movial fi> wrote:
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> Hello Amit,
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>> Also is it even possible to install Gnome-dektop with Directfb backend?
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> Do you strictly need DirectFB?
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> If you would use X.org, you could download everything from linux.onarm.com
> with X.org, GTK+ etc. readily available for Omap3. It uses Matchbox-desktop
> and matchbox, but compiling gnome libraries there should be trivial. It
> already has most of the dependencies there.
>
> If you consider using DirectFB only for performance reasons, I strongly
> recommend that you have a look at using X.org. It makes your life
> simpler. And if you try out the webbrowser provided on linux.onarm.com,
> you'll notice that it performs really nicely on Omap3.
>
> Br,
> Sampo
>