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diff --git a/x11/README b/x11/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b8c88ed --- a/dev/null +++ b/x11/README @@ -0,0 +1,37 @@ +We try hard to get Opie compiled with Qt2/X11 + +While directly drawing into the framebuffer is fast +and takes less memory compared to Qt2/X11 +sometimes you may want to use X11 cause you need +some feature of the X protocol or you think it's just +cute. + +We try hard to not break Opies normal compilation and to avoid +#ifdefs at all cost + +Things that are different on X11 with Qt2/X11 +- No fonthandling +- No Windowdecoration +- No IPC +- No keyhandling +- No powerhandling + +are built in + +We will ignore fontloading for now cause it belongs to X11. +The same applies to keyhandling +X11 is taking care of APM if not it's the kernel... + +Ok so we need to replace IPC and do empty stubs for the other things + +IPC: Our X11 IPC system is called OCOP and we've an almost sc QCopChannel +implementation. QCopEnvelope should work out of the box. +We do some symlinks to built opie out of the box. + +How to build Opie/x11 currently it's quite hard to but I'll make it more easy +soon + + +regards Holger + + 10-15-2002 |