Re: strategic direction

Russ writes:

> I think the strategic direction for Familiar, Familiar-GPE, and
> Familiar-Opie should be that everything should run over X, and that
> Familiar installs X by default. The base distribution should have a
> VERY minimal set of X files -- just enough so that a user can get
> their machine online without a serial console.

Alternatively, Familiar could ship with a way of sending input to a
framebuffer console. Of course, that would mean a *third*
graphics/input library, but it could be exceedingly small. Personally,
I like the start-with-X solution better myself, since the reason I was
interested in buying an iPAQ in the first place was that I could run X
apps on it. :-)

(Hmmm. I wonder how much trouble it would be to arrange for a version
of xstroke to talk to the touch screen directly and stuff keystrokes
into the VT input queue rather than the X input queue. That's probably
all you need at a bare minimum. I still think it's not worth the
effort when X is available, though.)

Jay
Received on Tue Jan 14 2003 - 19:03:24 EST