Subject: Re: E17 - Re: BSD licensed GUI and framebuffer
To: Dinesh Nadarajah <dinesh.nadarajah@gmail.com>
From: Chavdar Ivanov <ci4ic4@gmail.com>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 12/20/2007 09:15:06
On 19/12/2007, Chavdar Ivanov <ci4ic4@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 19/12/2007, Dinesh Nadarajah <dinesh.nadarajah@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Are NetBSD packages/port available for E17 desktop? I looked through
> > pkgsrc and could not find one for it but I do see quite a few
> > screenshots posted by users ; though the following link says it cannot
> > properly compile on NetBSD with out the hack
> > (http://www0.get-e.org/E17_User_Guide/English/_pages/3.3.html)
>
> wip/e17

... which, considering that it is still early days, is surprisingly
usable - I have meant to try it for some time and it looks good. I'll
give it a longer try for a while to see how it goes.

>
>
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > -D
> >
> > On Dec 19, 2007 10:29 AM, Jeremy C. Reed <reed@reedmedia.net> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Wed, 19 Dec 2007, Dinesh Nadarajah wrote:
> > >
> > > > I am trying to develop a small test application and I am trying to
> > > > find out if there are any BSD licensed GUI toolkits,
> > > > Framebuffer/X-Windows like environments and window managers. If not
> > > > are there any plans in the BSD community to develop these?
> > >
> > > Enlightment is a window manager and provides a GUI toolkit and environment
> > > which is BSD licensed.
> > >
> > > Several other window managers are BSD (or similar) licensed.
> > >
> > > X11 provides GUI toolkits that are licensed similar to BSD, like Xaw
> > > (Athena) and Xt (Intrinsics).
> > >
> > >
> > >   Jeremy C. Reed
> > >
> >
>
>
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