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Old 07-08-2008, 05:00 PM   #26
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Originally Posted by Hanselda View Post
Some ideas:
For my point of view it is not necessary to have any windows manager, neither blackbox nor enlightenment. The program that is useful for a ebook reader, for example a library browser, reader, pdf or so, this can all be implemented without any libs from a windows manager.

Apart from the X there is also the possibility to make the application purely in framebuffer. Some GUI interface to framebuffer is demonstrated already, especially these two, looks quite interesting:
http://home.comcast.net/~fbui/
http://home.comcast.net/~fbui/fwe.html
The FBUI works only on Kernel 2.6.9. I think it would be very tedious to implement programs based on X.

Anyway Derek, it is really a brilliant idea. Highly respect!
Hanselda,

Don't respect me! I'm just one of the fringe people at OI. But feel free to pass your respects onto dottedmag, ondra, wenjie, lunohod and the rest of the gang!

Derek
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