Re: Directfb Backend

[Attilio Fiandrotti <fiandro tiscalinet it>]

Mike Emmel wrote:
> On 1/4/06, Matthias Clasen <mclasen redhat com> wrote:
>
> > - Is it good enough to run large applications with it, e.g. the Gimp ?
>
> No it does most of gtktest and gtkdemo.
> I've not even tried Gimp.

I've just built the GIMP 2.2.10 against GTKDFB 2.8.3 with the following 
configure options to simplify the compile process (i suppose a 
fully-featured GIMP can be built too ) that went smooth.

./configure --prefix=/home/attilio/gimp --without-x --without-libtiff 
--without-libmng --without-libexif --without-aa --without-gtkhtml2 
--without-librsvg --without-lcms --disable-print

Even if at runtime the GIMP produces a lot of warnings and sometimes 
crashes, it seems GTKDFB is actually suitable to build and run such a 
complex app [1] :)
Luckily, the debian graphical installer [2] is a much simpler GTK app 
that works well even with the old GTKDFB 2.0.9 port (we plan to switch 
to a more recent GTKDFB version as soon as possible, maybe after the 
Extremadura meeting [3] where we hope we'll be able to fix some bugs in 
both GTKDFB and DFB).

ciao

Attilio

[1] https://debian.polito.it/downloads/gimp_gtkdfb.png
[2] http://people.debian.org/~fjp/d-i/gtk-miniiso/daily/i386/mini.iso
[3] http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstallerWorkSessionExtremadura2006jan