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Re: GUI support
- To: t dot jeait at d-ventures dot com
- Subject: Re: [ECOS] GUI support
- From: Bart Veer <bartv at redhat dot com>
- Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 12:35:59 +0100
- CC: ecos-discuss at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- References: <000901bfe0d3$7b235e60$723bd9d4@Elan>
- Reply-to: bartv at redhat dot com
>>>>> "Tarik" == Tarik Jeait <t.jeait@d-ventures.com> writes:
Tarik> Hi, is there any GUI that is supported by ecos ? have
Tarik> anybody maked ecos work with an embedded GUI ?
Tarik> thank you for help
You may want to read
http://www.planetanalog.com/story/multimedia/OEG20000404S0024
There is no free GUI package available on sourceware.cygnus.com yet.
To quote from an earlier posting
(http://sourceware.cygnus.com/ml/ecos-discuss/2000-05/msg00146.html)
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Jerry> That reminds me, I haven't seen anything in terms of a
Jerry> X Windows or other GUI. Is there one for eCos, or are
Jerry> you just porting over the XFree86 (or other smaller
Jerry> GUI) for people who need it?
X is not appropriate for most embedded systems, it is just too big.
Also, a typical X installation involves at least two processes, the
server and the client, which does not map well on to eCos. There are
other graphics libraries, e.g. NanoGUI
(http://www.linuxhacker.org/nanogui/), which might be more
appropriate. An important issue here is the kind of display you are
targetting - TV, large LCD, small LCD, ... - since something suitable
for a small LCD might look rather poor on a larger display.
So far there has not been a contributed port of NanoGUI or anything
similar, and none of the customers paying Red Hat for a supported eCos
port have specified a GUI library as a requirement.
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Bart Veer // eCos net maintainer