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Today I finished integrating some cool code into Evas: box and table. These utility smart objects are now in Evas for good, we can stop replicating those in many projects and people who just want to use them and not a full featured toolkit like ETK or EWL are now free. More importantly: we can now expose these in Edje, making all layout elements dependent on theme, not having to rely on SWALLOW slots!

Rasterman’s Gang: Nokia N810, Sharp Zaurus, OpenMoko Freerunner and Palm Treo-650

After Rasterman announced he had “The Gang” running Illume we decided to help him and run it in yet-another platform, the Freescale iMX31:

Some days ago raster already posted video of his virtual keyboard doing correction/prediction and operating on various resolutions, for those that liked my iPhone-like virtual keyboard demo for n800, this one looks better and is for real, check out his videos: 01, 02, 03 and 04

Unlike most would say, x11 does quite well. See our benchmarks comparing X11, FB, DirectFB on a Fresscale imx31. There you can see how x11-16 bitch-slaps everything… that’s even better on n8×0 and that’s why Canola runs fast

ProFUSION is proud to announce the first public release of our Guarana framework and its demo Enjoy.

Guarana is a set of free software libraries to aid embedded application development. It comes with with a remote control access library, module loader, model-view-controller machinery, basic data structures and a fast growing widget set.

Enjoy is a demo music player targeted at embedded touchscreen devices. It uses Guarana’s MVC and widgets and Emotion to play media.

Here’s a video running on the target demo platform, a Freescale imx31 3-stack board. (it will run on N8×0, but will not play music because Emotion’s gstreamer backend uses decodebin, we need to patch it to use DSP decoders/sinks)

More information about Guarana features and an Enjoy screenshot see the original press release.

For those that don’t know, Guarana is a Brazilian plant and also the name of an excellent soft drink. It’s also the base of some energetic drinks. That’s why the demo is called Enjoy… okay, okay, it’s also because it starts with “e” as well

We’re proud to release a new version of LightMediaScanner, the fastest media scanner for your embedded device

Next week Ulisses, Luis Felipe and I will be at “Semana da Mobilidade” (Mobility Week), to be held at USP São Carlos, Brazil.

Today I read on Trolltech Labs Blogs a great post from Samuel Rødal about how to get translucent widgets on X11 with Qt’s newest snapshot. Then I thought that if people find it cool to have such thing, why not say how to do the same in EFL?

We just published at ProFUSION news (shameless plug!) that we finished the port and packaging of Enlightenment DR17 on Freescale’s i.MX31 development board. Packages were sent to LTIB mail list and are pending inclusion into official repository.

Hardware is very similar to Nokia N810, but with a smaller screen. Software runs smooth, but it’s not usable out-of-the-box, with dialogs being too big and general hit areas too small (border buttons, etc), that’s why we plan to port Illume soon, as well as Python-EFL so maybe someone can try to run Canola on it

One of the most boring work while doing Edje is having to measure all the parts and write them on your EDC files. It’s also very error prone. So why not make it automatic?

This week ProFUSION released Evas DirectFB engine, adding it back to SVN. While engine is functional, it’s not as fast as it could be and Denis Oliver Kropp is looking at this, that seems to be related to pre-allocated surfaces not being accelerated by DirectFB. You can work around this by using Evas software engine, that is very fast, just define DFB_USE_EVAS_IMAGE_DRAW.

Announcements:

• http://www.mail-archive.com/enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net/msg18943.html
• http://www.mail-archive.com/directfb-users@directfb.org/msg07833.html

Next steps are to provide EWL and ETK engines, just need some time to work on them.