On Mon, May 8, 2017 at 4:43 AM, Burton, Ross <ross.bur...@intel.com> wrote: > > On 8 May 2017 at 12:33, Jussi Kukkonen <jussi.kukko...@intel.com> wrote: >> >> Sato is extremely lightweight (not just runtime-wise but with regards to >> build time and maintenance effort). I admit I'm not familiar with LXDE but >> other DEs known as lightweight are in reality on another level compared to >> Sato... Sato projects themselves are tiny and depend on very little: this is >> quite beneficial since it keeps the automated test runtimes reasonable. > > > Also Sato works on a wide range of devices: if you have a 30" monitor with a > keyboard/mouse, or a 4" touchscreen, it is still usable. It's not optimal > on anything, but it's functional on everything. Put LXDE on a 4" capacitive > touchscreen and you'll probably have trouble getting anything to start. > > Obviously if you're happy to say "I target desktop users" then there's > meta-gnome, meta-xfce, and so on. >
A general usecase is that someone takes the reference and tweaks it to meet the needs of a product quickly. For such usecases, it would be good to consider the most widely used UI framework in embedded space. I personally don't know how much sato is deployed but QT based systems are quite widely deployed as far as I know. I think users can drive maximum out of the testing and stabilization we do if they were using the reference software as much as possible. -- _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list Openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core
