On Mon, 2006-03-27 at 11:18 +0200, peter.greve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > Hello, > > I am actually planning the GUI for an embedded system driven by a PowerPC. > So GTK++ is one of the options I can go with. I like the GIMP tool, so GTK > should be a good choise. > But I have no feeling concerning resources, CPU load and library size > needed to run a GTK app in the "embedded world". > Maybe someone can give me some rough ideas or experiences. > > Is GTK a tool for desktop computers only or does is also fit into the > embedded world? The GPE project (http://gpe.handhelds.org/ ) has done a lot of work making GTK fit well into an embedded environment. They are targeting mainly PDAs, but their work will probably adapt well to your needs. They use the Kdrive X server (very tiny) and uLibc usually. A window manager named "matchbox" is also used to make apps work well on a small PDA screen. Sounds like this doesn't really affect you though, so any light window manager may work for you. > What is the size of all libraries needed to run GTK ? Back when I had a Zaurus and was using GPE, the x server itself was quite small, with the X and gtk libraries just being a few megabytes. > Do I really need the whole GIMP to run GTK as I red somewhere? (that sounds > very large) No GTK is just a toolkit that GIMP is built out of. > Do I need a lot of CPU power to run a GTK GUI ? No. Michael > Is there a spezialied version for the "embedded world"? What is about "GTK+ > on DirectFB" ? > Does GTK needs the X-Window system? Can I go with Tiny-X? > We have to handle a lot of large images on the GUI (1280x1024, 24bit). Is > there a bottleneck in GTK or X11 to handle these data so I should avoid > these tools? > > Is there a "visualizing" tool to help to design the GUI and the underlying > dialogs? > > Is there a way to adapt a special graphics processor (coming with an > appropriate API) to an GTK application ? > Do I need to write something like a driver for that graphics processor to > connect to the GTK app? (I red something about GDK) > How can I support special features of that graphics processor like alpha > blending and text anti aliasing? Are these features already supported by > GTK ? > > I hope the list of questions is not too long. But any information is > helpful for me to find the right GUI toolkit for my project. > Thank's in advance > > Peter > > _______________________________________________ > > gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list > _______________________________________________ gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
