Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2003 15:10:24 -0400 From: Eric Jacobs <eaja@erols.com> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Drawing graphics on terminal Message-ID: <20030616151024.0616e1e4.eaja@erols.com> In-Reply-To: <200306162015.06836.nakal@web.de> References: <200306162015.06836.nakal@web.de>
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On Mon, 16 Jun 2003 20:15:06 +0200 Nakal <nakal@web.de> wrote: > Hi, > > recently, I found vidcontrol and played a bit with it. I have been > looking for documents about how to output pixels (graphics) on the > terminal. See /usr/share/examples/libvgl > I could not find any. Before I give up, I want to ask here, > if it is possible to do that. What I want to do is to port my > applications from Linux-framebuffer to FreeBSD, but I am also thinking > about making a graphical installer for FreeBSD (eye-candy is always > nice to attract new users). I've been thinking about that too. The big question I have is whether it's a good idea to use a toolkit with a more restrictive license (GPL, LGPL, MPL), which would make it a lot easier, or come up with something that could be licensed under the BSD license. I know that FreeBSD has used the GPL'd libdialog in sysinstall for quite some time without problems, but maybe it is time to start thinking about something that is free in the BSD license sense. I don't think the advantage of a GUI-based installer would be "eye-candy". libdialog looks fine IMO. It would be to increase the ease of use, allow more flexibility in installations, and add more troubleshooting/diagnostic options (disabling/enabling/loading device drivers, etc.)
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