[OE-core] GUI based images

[Ian Arkver]

On 09/05/17 09:44, Alex J Lennon wrote:
> 
> 
> On 09/05/17 09:05, Alexander Kanavin wrote:
>> On 05/09/2017 01:15 AM, Paul Eggleton wrote:
>>>> LXDE in particular is Gtk2 based, it's no longer being developed, and
>>>> has been superseded by LXQt. So it's a non-starter (and so is LXQt,
>>>> which should be clear from its name :).
>>>
>>> FWIW I think this is a little short-sighted. Why are we ruling out Qt 
>>> exactly?
>>
>> We would first have to agree that Qt5 belongs in oe-core with 
>> appropriate level of maintenance and QA, and that it's okay to add 
>> half an hour or more to the building time of a standard GUI image.
>>
>> From the screenshots of LxQT, it looks like yet another Win95 clone 
>> meant strictly for desktop use that would certainly scale poorly to 
>> small resolution screens. Who would be the target audience for it in 
>> the embedded space? For the purposes of 'engineering UI', Sato is 
>> fine, and we don't need something else.
>>
>> Alex
> 
> fwiw. I would love to be able to develop devices like those pictured 
> below, which I believe are based on Qt for Device Creation.
> 
> https://d33sqmjvzgs8hq.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/devices.png 
> 
> 
> ref: https://www.qt.io/qt-for-device-creation/
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Alex
> 

They have their own meta-b2qt layer for that. See "Embedded 
documentation" and "Building Your Own Embedded Linux Image" from that
page.

It's not an OE-core thing, imho.

Regards,
Ian