Thread: iLiad Pressure sensitivity
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Old 06-30-2008, 05:12 PM   #6
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Originally Posted by axel77 View Post
I also wonder, can't we upgrade X? I mean there are so many x-extensions available on the PC... theoretically adding a pressuresensitivity extensions should be possible. Not?
Probably. I just didn't feel like it, and I haven't got much experience programming X. In fact, I don't really understand why the iLiad uses X at all, and not a custom toolkit on top of, say, DirectFB or somesuch. Most applications are full-screen anyway. It would make the iLiad quite a bit "lighter", and it would boot a few seconds faster, too.

Of course, we would have lacked the nice ports of mrxvt etc., but perhaps it should only run optionally during "thinkering" and not during normal operation of the device.
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