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

[Robert Millan]

On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 02:12:07PM +0200, Gerfried Fuchs wrote:
>         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

No problem.  Lenny isn't really going to be usable on the Freerunner anyway.

>  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.

Ah, I guess this explains the added build-dependency on imagemagick.

Thanks!

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