gmane.os.inferno.general

emu on N800; any experience with gtk or similar toolkits?

After someone in #9fans prompted me to notice that my file simply got
truncated, I've now got emu running on the Linux/arm-based Nokia N800.
The Inferno side just worked with a current inferno-os checkout; the
hard part was working with the Linux cross-development environment
Nokia uses (scratchbox) and getting X libraries and headers in the
right places.

The next hurdle is the fact that the default UI is all Gtk,
specifically something called Hildon. Has anyone done anything to make
inferno/wm play nicely with these types of toolkits? In particular,
it'd be nice to get their pseudo-keyboard text input method.

Lacking that, I'm going to just try and convince it to go full-screen
and use wm/keyboard, but I'm not sure how tight a hold the Gtk-based
stuff has on the screen. I'll let you know if I get any good results.
Anthony

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Richard Miller | 15 May 20:46

Re: emu on N800; any experience with gtk or similar toolkits?

> Lacking that, I'm going to just try and convince it to go full-screen
> and use wm/keyboard, but I'm not sure how tight a hold the Gtk-based
> stuff has on the screen.

Been there, done that (almost) ...

I'll send you a full-screen hack for win-x11a.c which I use on my N800.
I say "hack" because it's only useful if you go into inferno and stay
there.  If you switch from inferno to another application, there doesn't
seem to be any way to find the inferno window again.

I also found it useful to make an enlarged version of wm/keyboard 
for the N800's high-res screen (maybe a -m for magnification option
would be a good idea?).

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Charles Forsyth | 15 May 23:33

Re: emu on N800; any experience with gtk or similar toolkits?

> I also found it useful to make an enlarged version of wm/keyboard 
> for the N800's high-res screen (maybe a -m for magnification option
> would be a good idea?).

the choice of various sizes should be more sensitive to the underlying physical dimensions

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Charles Forsyth | 15 May 21:10

Re: emu on N800; any experience with gtk or similar toolkits?

> The next hurdle is the fact that the default UI is all Gtk,
> specifically something called Hildon. Has anyone done anything to make
> inferno/wm play nicely with these types of toolkits? In particular,
> it'd be nice to get their pseudo-keyboard text input method.

isn't that just X11 (NOT that even X11 is straightforward in libxcb days)?
or is it closer to Qtk, which can take over the world on small devices?