[OLPC-devel] Re: UI base?

[Jim Gettys]

I'm not convinced a window system in the boot loader is a good idea:
doing something very simple graphically might make sense (rather than
text base).

We can get some more serious graphics talent applied to making nice
iconography...
                             Regards,
                                - Jim


On Tue, 2006-07-11 at 12:03 -0600, Jordan Crouse wrote:
> On 11/07/06 13:53 -0400, Jim Gettys wrote:
> > And there is Twin: http://keithp.com/~keithp/talks/twin-ols2005/
> 
> Oh, I forgot all about Twin (/me smacks self in head).  Twin would
> probably be ideal for this.   I think its time to do an experimental
> app and see what will fit in the ROM.
> 
> I can do the coding easy enough, but I can barely draw a stick figure, so...
> 
> Chris Blizzard - could you or somebody close to you could work up some images
> like the ones you drew on the board?  If we use fbui or nano-X, w would
> probably want to use jpg format, or possibly xpm, pnm, or ppm (which we could
> embed into the binary).
> 
> As for Twin, we would have to ask Keith what he recommends.  IIRC, Twin uses
> vector graphics, so possibly svg?
> 
> Jordan
> 
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Jim Gettys
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