Mario Lang, le Mon 01 Dec 2008 11:12:02 +0100, a écrit : > Samuel Thibault <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > It was considered "ugly" by the debian-boot people to expose things > > via shared memory. > > What did they propose as an alternative?
Nothing. > To me, a shm segment with an ID where the virtual terminal number is > encoded Ah, that's a good idea indeed. > > Ideally there should be a way to insert unicode characters as well. > Right now, I'd be happy to see anything in such terminals :-) :) > > Now, AT-SPI people would say "just implement the AT-SPI interface!" I'm > > not sure we really want that. > > I definitely think thats the wrong way to go, because of > the overhead involved. This forces AT-SPI into text-mode > world. Besides, its surely much harder to implement > without any apparent gain. Besides, then, someone might > call it ugly because of its CORBA dependency. Well, AT-SPI is being ported to D-BUS, but I too think that it's a quite heavy dependency, particularly since we'd want to have the framebuffer terminal support in things like Linux installers... Samuel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
