[OE-core] GUI based images

[Max Krummenacher]

Am Dienstag, den 09.05.2017, 11:10 +0300 schrieb Alexander Kanavin:
> On 05/09/2017 01:50 AM, Khem Raj wrote:
> > A general usecase is that someone takes the reference and tweaks it to
> > meet the needs of a product quickly. For such usecases, it would be good to
> > consider the most widely used UI framework in embedded space. I
> > personally don't know how much sato is deployed but QT based systems
> > are quite widely deployed as far as I know. I think users can drive maximum
> > out of the testing and stabilization we do if they were using the reference
> > software as much as possible.
> 
> Qt itself does not provide a UI, so we would need to find an appropriate 
> qt-based replacement for Sato that has the same characteristics and is 
> suitable as an 'engineering UI'. What is your suggestion for that?
> 
> I personally think meta-qt5 works fine; it's only missing a reference UI 
> environment. Why not add LxQt to that layer?
> 
Andreas already has those recipes in meta-qt5-extra:
https://layers.openembedded.org/layerindex/recipe/39614/

And for those who want a look at LXDE:
http://git.toradex.com/cgit/meta-lxde.git/tree/recipes-lxde/packagegroup/packagegroup-lxde-extended.
bb?h=master

Max

> 
> Alex