Date: Wed, 15 Dec 1999 16:21:56 +0100 (CET) From: Andrzej Bialecki <abial@webgiro.com> To: Adam Strohl <adams@digitalspark.net> Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>, "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com>, Ryan Thompson <freebsd@sasknow.com>, Peter Jeremy <peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sysinstall: is it really at the end of its lifecycle? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.20.9912151620390.11014-100000@mx.webgiro.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9912150748320.370-100000@nightfall.digitalspark.net>
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On Wed, 15 Dec 1999, Adam Strohl wrote: > On Tue, 14 Dec 1999, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > > VESA syscons, either using libvgl and an array of crude widgets or > > something like MGR and its widget set, has long been on the wish-list > > but I didn't even include it in my summary since it's still very much > > a pipe-dream. :-) > > Hmm, this has been a fantasy of mine, as well. I was hoping to assist > with the syscons code enough so that we could get a simple primative API > down for drawing graphics on the screen, but my job seems to be taking up > any time I'd have to do that now, hopefully that will change :P > > However, the syscons cleanup is proceeding anyway from what I've seen on > the list. > > As long as we have basic graphics drawing, we'd be able to impliment our > own widgets, if need be. I don't know how big the requirements for libvgl > are, or how much spare space on that second floppy we have, though. As I said, I know of two examples of more or less complete GUIs, which are either ported to libvgl or can be fairly easily ported. Both of them take about 100kB. Andrzej Bialecki // <abial@webgiro.com> WebGiro AB, Sweden (http://www.webgiro.com) // ------------------------------------------------------------------- // ------ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve. http://www.freebsd.org -------- // --- Small & Embedded FreeBSD: http://www.freebsd.org/~picobsd/ ---- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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