Xfce4-panel directfb port

[Masse Nicolas]

Le Thu, 26 Oct 2006 12:00:15 +0530,
Pradosh Adoni <pradosh.adoni at codito.com> a écrit :

Hi, 

just to say that I get my hand on my old code and was able to run
xfce4-panel on directfb once again!
I also made a screenshot, and I think I would make a page on the
directfb wiki (here is the link:
http://www.directfb.org/wiki/index.php/DFB_panel). I will also put the
code, is some wants to have a look.
But anyway, don't forget that this is more something like a 'proof of
concept' or 'proof of feasability' than anything else, since it's based
on quite old code and is also quite buggy.

Fell free to have a look,
bountykiller.

Note: I cc the directfb and xfce ML since some can be interested in
that.

> Hi Nicolas,
> 
> Thanks for responding.
> 
> It would be good to have a panel that is pure DirectFB especially for
> embedded devices, phones,PDAs and the like.It think it's only been
> about 6 months or so since DirectFB has started becoming more
> "usable" (if you could call it that) and I suppose people are going
> to start  looking at a pure DirectFB desktop soon.
> You seem to be the only one who has actually tried porting any panel
> to DirectFB.I didn't want to reinvent the wheel if the code was lying
> around somewhere , so I asked. :).
> 
> It would be great if you could find the code :)
> 
> Thanks
> -- Pradosh Adoni 
> 
> On Wed, 2006-10-25 at 19:16 +0200, Nicolas Masse wrote:
> > Le mercredi 25 octobre 2006 à 13:11 +0530, Pradosh Adoni a écrit :
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > I came across your post on the directfb-dev archives regarding the
> > > xfce-panel on directfb.
> > > I'm interested in a (minimally) functional panel for DirectFB.
> > > Have you released the port anywhere under GPL by any chance ?
> > > 
> > > Apologies for being so curt.
> > > 
> > > Thanks and Regards,
> > > Pradosh Adoni
> > hmm, well, it's a quite old post...
> > No, I didn't release anything under GPL. I had at a time a panel,
> > but it was really buggy. Only launcher were working a little, with
> > some bugs tough.
> > Perhaps if I try it now,would it be working better, since I assume
> > the gtk port made some enhancement.
> > In fact, the biggest problem was some missing feature in directfb,
> > especially the lack of messaging between windows. (there was a
> > discussion about ipc under dfb on the ML). But i think it has begin
> > to change quite recently. 
> > 
> > With all that in consideration, and the fact that you feel
> > interested, perhaps can i get back to that. It was not too hard to
> > do it once, so i assume i can do it again. At least, I will try to
> > see if I haven't some code lost on my hard drive.
> > 
> > Thanks for your interest,
> > Masse Nicolas.
> > 
> >