GUI Libraries, Frame Buffer and Input Devices

[Sebastian Huber]

On 12/14/2010 12:16 PM, Sébastien Bourdeauducq wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Tuesday 14 December 2010 11:54:36 Sebastian Huber wrote:
[...]
>> An alternative is Qt Embedded.  This is very attractive since it runs on
>> many platforms and is one of the best GUI libraries available.
> 
> I tried that already, without much result. It's hard and not very fruitful 
> work. Qt is also probably slow and memory-hungry (it's not just a "GUI 
> library", it's more like a complete C++ operating system). See:
> http://lists.milkymist.org/pipermail/devel-milkymist.org/2010-
> September/000885.html

Everything has its cost.  Apart from the mmap() issues I don't see a lot of
problems.

> 
> So I kicked all this away and went for a modded Genode FX 
> (http://github.com/lekernel/mtk) which provided the most features and an 
> acceptable look and feel (Nano-X demos = jokes) with a small resource 
> footprint and relatively little effort.
[...]

The problem with this library is the GPL.

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