On Mon, Dec 28, 1998 at 06:11:18PM +1100, Sven Dowideit wrote:
> i was thinking that it would be better to go for GGI, and a good excuse for
> someone to learn GGI too.
> 
Yes. GGI is the way to go. 

>From the FAQ: 

|LibGGI is an attempt to unify all those graphical output systems that exist
|on Unix (and we even want to port to other systems as well).
|
|Linux alone has a pretty big set of graphics output subsystems:
|
|X, SVGAlib, /dev/fb (native or kgicon), LibAA, Glide, XF86-DGA, etc. ...
|
|LibGGI is an attempt to unify all of them. It is a very fast, simple (ever
|tried to make a small graphics app directly in Xlib ?) and lightweight
|interface layer, that allows you to run the _very_same_binary_ on all the
|above mentioned targets (as we call them). LibGGI will detect (or you can
|select, of course) the environment you are running in, and redirect its
|output as required. Forget about limiting yourself to just one graphics 
|subsystem and just use LibGGI.
|
| ftp://ftp.ggi-project.org/pub/ggi/ggi/2_0_beta_1
| http://www.ggi-project.org

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