Hi Florian, Thanks for your kind reply. And I have decided to use Maemo as the GUI and dillo as my browser. But there is something that I still don't quite understand. I know that Maemo is based on GTK libraries and so is dillo, but the version of the libs that the two above requires seems different. Does it matter? Li Weichen > -----Original Message----- > From: Florian Boor [mailto:florian.boor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Sunday, March 12, 2006 7:51 PM > To: Li Weichen > Cc: gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: Asking for advice on embedded gtk guiand web browser. > > Hi, > > Li Weichen wrote: > > > 1. Is gtk a name of GUI? If it is, can it be properly cross compiled for > > embedded use? > > Yes, crosscompiling GTK works pretty well. > > > 2. Is there any ready to use embedded gtk GUI? > > There are several projects creating lightweight GUIs based on GTK. For a mobile > device with low resources and a small screen you might want to take a look at > GPE (http://gpe.handhelds.org, the website is a little bit outdated). > There is a ready made cross toolchain to build GPE applications for ARM devices > as well. > > > 3. Because I want to use it in a networking device, so could you please > > recommend me an embedded web browser? > > There are several options, but no perfect one. Dillo is very small and stable > but lacks many features, gpe-mini-browser (based on GtkWebcore) has a better > rendering engine but isn't free of bugs either. If you have a little bit more > memory Minimo might be interesting too. > > > 4. The device has 32MB RAM, is it enough for the gtk GUI? > > Yes, but i'd recommend to use GTK 2.6.x. > > You will find out that crosscompiling all the software is a nasty job, > especially if you want to get a maintainable filesystem. There are quite some > powerful tools to help you with this. Scratchbox is interesting for > development, > for creating filesystems T2 and OpenEmbedded are useful. > > I hope this helps... > > Greetings > > Florian > > -- > The dream of yesterday Florian Boor > is the hope of today Tel: +49 271-771091-14 > and the reality of tomorrow. Fax: +49 271-771091-19 > [Robert Hutchings Goddard, 1904] florian.boor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > 6C 44 30 4C 43 20 6B 61 16 07 0F AA E6 97 70 A8 _______________________________________________ gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
