Journal ramorim's Journal: Enlightenment to steal GTK's throne in embedded Nokia device
Carsten "Rasterman" Haitzler, of Enlightenment fame, is trying to make this innovative desktop environment's graphic libraries take over GTK's throne in Nokia's mobile embedded devices. Speaking at Bossa Conference to a 100+ audience, Rasterman revealed he spent 3 hours last night coding the presentation application he just used (and it was actually pretty enough!).
Rasterman has been using the EFL (Enlightenment Foundation Libraries) in the OpenMoko all-open-source handset for a while, and he seems to be taking interesting strides into Nokia's devices, too (Bossa Conference is a Nokia event). The creator of Enlightenment listed all the graphics hardware currently available in embedded devices, also showing their strengths and weaknesses. Framebuffer overlay planes, according to him, would offer the best trade-off between resource consumption and speed.
Enter the EFL. Evas, Ecore and Edje together are able to perform really well on even the cheapest hardware solutions. They abstract the rendering from the hardware and the OS, and can handle x11, xrender, framebuffer, OpenGL, Directfb and even – mind you – Directdraw and Direct3D rendering technologies. So, it basically "runs anywhere", as the Rasterman put it.
Reference at Linux Magazine
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