Re: Gtk+ on DirectFb (sample example fails with "DirectFb/Fbdev Caught Signal 11")

["Matthias Clasen" <matthias clasen gmail com>]

On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 10:14 AM, Sven Neumann <sven gimp org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Fri, 2008-12-19 at 16:54 +0100, Christian Dywan wrote:
>
>> The latest Gtk+ for DirectFB is broken because nobody who uses DirectFB
>> stepped up to bring it back in shape. I've seen countless attempts at
>> using it but nobody who was up to fix it.
>
> As far as I know there's a set of patches from Denis Oliver Kropp, the
> main DirectFB developer, that are waiting to be merged to trunk. Denis
> sent his patches to this list on 16 Feb 2008.
>

Someone who cares about the directfb backend needs to step forward and
take up regular maintenance of this backend. Otherwise, it is in
danger of following its predecessor linux-fb...