Monday, July 21, 2014

Qt for small systems

Qt has gain a lot of features, but most of them are targeted for cpu/gpu's that are very powerful. I have been working on a small windowing system with Qt on linux framebuffer. I hope it will provide a way to fully us widgets again. The problem with the linuxfb plugin is that it doesn't work with popup windows etc. With a windowing system you can use it just like you could with the old QWS system. The plan is to do something with a very low footprint, making it useful on ~200Mhz systems with limited amount of ram. EDIT.. It seems like you can run Wayland on pure framebuffer , I have completely missed that progress. I will try it out , and if it works well with QtWayland , I will go with that. But the thing that I am writing is fun so I will continue it anyway ! :)