From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: microcai@fedoraproject.org
Cc: linux-console@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Kernel fbcon UNICODE font support
Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2010 13:53:30 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101127135330.5e32a45a@pyx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1290837149.677.4.camel@cai.gentoo>
> Think about w3m, It must run on framebuffer to display pictures.
> But, I must run on fbterm to display CJK characters .....
So you want a windowing layer - thats a user space problem. You need that
anyway to keep the pictures and the text in the right places relative to
one another and to handle events.
> Well, if you have that time, please find out those softwares that need
> to rewrite, and, send patches to them. I'm sure they will just reply :
> why not handle UNICODE in kernel ?!
Which has been answered, if you want to run multiple graphical apps on a
framebuffer use a windowing system like everyone else does, and I would
imagine "use X" is what most of the software people would tell you.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-11-27 13:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-11-26 10:02 [PATCH 1/2] Kernel fbcon UNICODE font support Microcai
2010-11-26 10:09 ` Alan Cox
2010-11-26 10:19 ` microcai
[not found] ` <1F1E2EC1077B4BA58A16D9D3B458A7FD@avitech.sk>
2010-11-26 10:32 ` microcai
2010-11-26 10:41 ` Alan Cox
[not found] ` <AANLkTi=T7pfTP0xHmGqLCSj_8vq_kRijCp5NF+VeBz_f@mail.gmail.com>
[not found] ` <20101126104818.1e8f6511@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
2010-11-26 10:53 ` microcai
2010-11-26 11:03 ` microcai
2010-11-26 11:42 ` Alan Cox
2010-11-26 11:53 ` Microcai
2010-11-26 23:25 ` Alan Cox
2010-11-27 5:52 ` Microcai
2010-11-27 13:53 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2010-11-29 1:42 ` microcai
2010-11-29 8:52 ` Samuel Thibault
2010-11-27 8:19 ` Microcai
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