Re: Framebuffer

Hi Ersin,

AbiWord uses cairo and pango to draw now. As far as I can tell,
AbiWord's GTK backend is entirely based on the link-time options for
gtk. ie If you can work out how to set the build options to link in
the GTK framebuffer backend, everything Should Just Work ^(TM)

Yeah right!

Anyway, give it a go. You'll need to hack AbiWord's auto-foo
configuration system to set the framebuffer as AbiWord's backend.

Cheers

Martin

On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 1:06 PM, Ersin Akinci <ersin.akinci@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I was wondering if anyone might have any info about porting AbiWord to
> the Linux framebuffer.  There's an old thread in the mailing list from
> 2000, but it seems like the GTK FB port wasn't around back then.
> Another thread from 2004 mentions that Xft is used for font rendering
> (I think we use Pango now, but maybe there's still an Xft prereq?)  I
> know from trying to build AbiWord with the DirectFB port of GTK in the
> past that X header files are referenced all over the place.  Does
> anyone have any more specific information than that?
>
> -Ersin
>
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Received on Mon May 16 10:21:20 2011