Bug#496780: please provide a --enable-tinygui build

[Gerfried Fuchs]

        Hi!

* Robert Millan <rmh at aybabtu.com> [2008-08-27 15:20:06 CEST]:
> Please could you provide a --enable-tinygui build?  smallgui is not small
> enough for 480x640 (neo freerunner).

 Will propably take a while, definitely won't happen for lenny - it will
require new packages, the images get scaled down to 50% on install time
for that and thus it requires a different data package, have to go
through the NEW queue, you know the drill, even if I would hurry
pursuing this issue.

> This configure flag is supported by upstream;  haven't tried yet, but I
> believe it should work in my setup.

 Would hope so, and maybe I will find the money to get me such a nifty
system myself, was nice looking at the lots at debconf with them. :)

> P.S: What's the point of using build options for this?  Shouldn't -r always
> DTRT?

 Well, to some degree yes. --enable-smallgui will go away, it was the
easier approach in the first place to have different menu positioning
hooks, but this has changed with the new widget development going on.
About for tinygui, I don't think it will be done because scaling down on
run time will be rather ressource unfriendly, both from diskspace and
cpu, and in areas one would like to use the tinygui version it's much
better to avoid that.

 So long, and thanks for the suggestion.
Rhonda