Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist
* Package name : fbui Version : 0.9.14b Upstream Author : [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://home.comcast.net/~plinius/fbui.html * License : GPL Description : FBUI is a small, in-kernel graphical user interface (Include the long description here.) FBUI is a small, in-kernel graphical user interface for Linux. It permits you to put windows in each framebuffer-based virtual console, to read keyboard input and track a mouse pointer. Each process may have more than one window. FBUI exists for three reasons: 1. FBUI reduces software bloat because it implements a simple windowing system in a small, 32 kilobyte driver. Liberation from bloat is desirable for a number of reasons explained below. 2. FBUI assists people who are prohibited from using X Windows because they are using resource-limited platforms such as old computers and embedded devices. On these, X is an impossible burden, but a vanilla framebuffer may be too primitive. FBUI is "just right", and libfbui makes using FBUI even easier to use by providing abstractions and additional functions. 3. The traditional GUI of Linux -- X Windows -- is unlike any other subsystem in Linux in that the video drivers it uses are located within itself outside the kernel. Notice, normally Linux drivers and vital subsystems such as keyboard, printer, filesystem, usb, etc. are all located inside the kernel. FBUI simply puts the graphics driver where it belongs: inside the kernel with all the other drivers. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux highfield 2.6.10-1-686 #1 Tue Jan 18 04:34:19 EST 2005 i686 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
