From owner-freebsd-libh Wed Sep 12 13:53:55 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-libh@freebsd.org Received: from winston.freebsd.org (adsl-64-173-15-98.dsl.sntc01.pacbell.net [64.173.15.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5731537B407 for ; Wed, 12 Sep 2001 13:53:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (jkh@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by winston.freebsd.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id f8CKrMT61940; Wed, 12 Sep 2001 13:53:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@freebsd.org) To: jon@witchspace.com Cc: freebsd-libh@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Some thoughts In-Reply-To: <20010912200140.ZTNA29790.mta02-svc.ntlworld.com@there> References: <20010912200140.ZTNA29790.mta02-svc.ntlworld.com@there> X-Mailer: Mew version 1.94.1 on Emacs 20.7 / Mule 4.0 (HANANOEN) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <20010912135322U.jkh@freebsd.org> Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 13:53:22 -0700 From: Jordan Hubbard X-Dispatcher: imput version 20000228(IM140) Lines: 12 Sender: owner-freebsd-libh@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Personally I think TVision is pig ugly. Both Qt and GTK have versions > that render to a frame buffer - would it be possible to have a third > target for VGA capable displays using FreeBSD's frame buffer interface? > Qt/Embedded is under GPL unfortunately but AIR GTK is LGPL. The goal of TurboVision is to support the many FreeBSD server systems out there which have no graphics card in them and will never SEE a graphics card - all their needs, from installation to maintenance, are handled by a serial console. If it isn't capable of working with a VT100 terminal emulator, it isn't capable of serving our needs. - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-libh" in the body of the message