GUI

Hi,

I have some questions about GUIs on Minix3:

1) Does the Minix3 community have interest in a GUI? (both X and non-X)

2) Who is actually working on non-X GUIs? Are there guidelines for
architecture / driver model? How is the progress?

3) Who is actually working on porting X to Minix3? How is the progress?

Thank you a lot for the attention.

Best regards.

cm wrote:[color=blue]
> Hi,
>
> I have some questions about GUIs on Minix3:
>
> 1) Does the Minix3 community have interest in a GUI? (both X and non-X)
>
> 2) Who is actually working on non-X GUIs? Are there guidelines for
> architecture / driver model? How is the progress?
>
> 3) Who is actually working on porting X to Minix3? How is the progress?
>
> Thank you a lot for the attention.
>
> Best regards.
>[/color]
I hate to really state the obvious, but you're like the 10'th person so
far to ask about a GUI. Maybe we need to 'print' a weekly GUI progress
post... or even daily?

Sorry I really missed the website page that says X Windows is being
ported. Anyway, if there is some source of documentation on possible
architecture for video drivers / framebuffer, I'll be very glad to
cooperate. Thanks!

In article <1134101236.409146.130450@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com>,
cm <cmello@gmail.com> wrote:[color=blue]
>Sorry I really missed the website page that says X Windows is being
>ported. Anyway, if there is some source of documentation on possible
>architecture for video drivers / framebuffer, I'll be very glad to
>cooperate. Thanks![/color]

According to
<http://www.minix3.org/who_doing_what.html>
I am working on X.

X works, but the new kernel that supports X is still in alpha.


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> In article <1134101236.409146.130450@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com>,
> cm <cmello@gmail.com> wrote:[color=green]
>>Sorry I really missed the website page that says X Windows is being
>>ported. Anyway, if there is some source of documentation on possible
>>architecture for video drivers / framebuffer, I'll be very glad to
>>cooperate. Thanks![/color]
>
> According to
> <http://www.minix3.org/who_doing_what.html>
> I am working on X.
>
> X works, but the new kernel that supports X is still in alpha.[/color]

Could you tell what the differences between this new alpha-kernel and the
current one are?

Tobias

"cm" <cmello@gmail.com> wrote:[color=blue]
>I have some questions about GUIs on Minix3:
> ....
>1) Does the Minix3 community have interest in a GUI? (both X and non-X)[color=green]
>>2) Who is actually working on non-X GUIs? Are there guidelines for[/color]
>architecture / driver model? How is the progress? ...[/color]

I am waiting for a decrease in pressure at work, to
start working on a VNC server for Minix, followed
by porting/writing a small GUI for that VNC server.

By "small GUI" I mean a minimalist system,
providing the functionality required to configure
& monitor a myriad of industrial control systems.
(No need for arbitrary shaped or transparent
windows, skins, etc.)

The target would be embedded/control systems, (my
line of work,) without any display hardware. I want
to have the network transparency provided by both
X and VNC, but I do not need multiple clients
connected to a single server, (X,) and I prefer
the capacity to disconnect and reconnect to
a stateless server without losing data. (VNC)

A local VNC client could run on systems with display
hardware, providing a local GUI without any change
to the underlying infrastructure.

PS: The next good things to happen to minix would be
a PPC port (PPC405,440) and real time extensions.

Roberto Waltman

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