From owner-freebsd-current Wed Dec 15 7:24: 5 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mimer.webgiro.com (mimer.webgiro.com [212.209.29.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6246715292 for ; Wed, 15 Dec 1999 07:23:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from abial@webgiro.com) Received: by mimer.webgiro.com (Postfix, from userid 66) id F28BA2DC0A; Wed, 15 Dec 1999 16:24:39 +0100 (CET) Received: by mx.webgiro.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id D91A67811; Wed, 15 Dec 1999 16:21:56 +0100 (CET) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mx.webgiro.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D41AB10E10; Wed, 15 Dec 1999 16:21:56 +0100 (CET) Date: Wed, 15 Dec 1999 16:21:56 +0100 (CET) From: Andrzej Bialecki To: Adam Strohl Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , "Daniel C. Sobral" , Ryan Thompson , Peter Jeremy , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sysinstall: is it really at the end of its lifecycle? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 15 Dec 1999, Adam Strohl wrote: > On Tue, 14 Dec 1999, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > > VESA syscons, either using libvgl and an array of crude widgets or > > something like MGR and its widget set, has long been on the wish-list > > but I didn't even include it in my summary since it's still very much > > a pipe-dream. :-) > > Hmm, this has been a fantasy of mine, as well. I was hoping to assist > with the syscons code enough so that we could get a simple primative API > down for drawing graphics on the screen, but my job seems to be taking up > any time I'd have to do that now, hopefully that will change :P > > However, the syscons cleanup is proceeding anyway from what I've seen on > the list. > > As long as we have basic graphics drawing, we'd be able to impliment our > own widgets, if need be. I don't know how big the requirements for libvgl > are, or how much spare space on that second floppy we have, though. As I said, I know of two examples of more or less complete GUIs, which are either ported to libvgl or can be fairly easily ported. Both of them take about 100kB. Andrzej Bialecki // WebGiro AB, Sweden (http://www.webgiro.com) // ------------------------------------------------------------------- // ------ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve. http://www.freebsd.org -------- // --- Small & Embedded FreeBSD: http://www.freebsd.org/~picobsd/ ---- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message