Re: strategic direction

On Tue, 2003-01-14 at 19:02, Jay Sekora wrote:
> (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.)

It'd certainly be possible, but it does seem a bit like an exercise in
futility to invent a new mini-GUI (and implicitly commit to all the
future maintenance that goes with it) just for this.

If we can't conclusively heal the X-vs-Qt/E schism, then the easiest
answer is probably to just go on making separate bootstrap images with
Opie/E preinstalled and no X. So long as both the X and the Qt/E routes
allow you to do what Russ suggests, ie get set up and on the network
without the need for a "host" machine, then from the user's perspective
that ought to be pretty much good enough.

p.
Received on Tue Jan 14 2003 - 22:27:30 EST