[OE-core] Putting fltk into oe-core (recipes-graphics)

[Laszlo Papp]

Ping?

I asked this a bit more than five months ago. Shall I take it as "No"?

On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 7:59 AM, Laszlo Papp <lpapp at kde.org> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> was this thoroughly discussed before? I think the 'fltk' graphics library is
> quite lightweight. We still use that instead of qt and gtk on limited
> embedded platforms simply because it takes 1.2 MB or a bit more rather than
> a full blown Qt with 10-12+ MB.
>
> If I understand correctly there were discussions that gtk should not be
> inside openembedded core which I agree about. However, I think it would be
> useful to have some lightweight library like this in. Of course, this is
> lacking some features that Qt has, but that is why it is lightweight after
> all. :-)
>
> It is currently in the openembedded layer. It has a couple of minor
> dependencies which should probably be moved, but I do not see anything
> major. I think it is a more "core" option for ui building than the
> alternatives. This also supports opengl to a certain extent.
>
> Cheers,
> Laszlo