Re: What Linux lacks : better in-kernel user interface

From: Måns Rullgård (mru_at_mru.ath.cx)
Date: 09/04/04

  • Next message: Peter Köhlmann: "Re: What Linux lacks : better in-kernel user interface" 
    Date: Sat, 04 Sep 2004 13:14:11 +0200

    u9526@yahoo.com (Saturday7) writes:

    > Måns Rullgård <mru@mru.ath.cx> wrote in message
    >
    >> > That's just not true.
    >> > I've got a very simple widget system that is 50kB.
    >>
    >> That's it. Very simple sometimes isn't good enough.
    >
    > People who want bloat can use X.

    I don't want bloat, search the archives for evidence. However, I do
    want many of the features X provides, such as hierarchical windows,
    well-working event model, pixmaps just to name a few.

    >> > I've written a windowing system -- not that I would ever put that
    >> > in a kernel -- that was less than 200kB.
    >>
    >> Define a windowing system. Drawing a few windows might be simple, but
    >> doing many of the things lots of programs do all the time with X does
    >> require some amount of code.
    >
    > Creating windows, handling rectangles due to overlap, allowing
    > windows to be moved. Basic stuff.
    >
    > X -> bloat
    > !bloat -> !X

    You must be confusing X with the horribly bloated things called KDE
    and GNOME.

    >> > Font rendering is a single function that is at most 5kB.
    >>
    >> Does it do pcf, type1 and truetype fonts? Antialiasing?
    >
    > And you point is?

    A want a font rendering engine to do those things, and I don't think
    they can be done with a single 5kB function. Please correct me if I
    am mistaken. 

    -- 
Måns Rullgård
mru@mru.ath.cx
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