Epsilon's Amiga X1000 Blog

[cgutjahr]

I hope you find it interesting :-)

I do, every time. Thanks.

I made a news item about the updates/news you mention. I described AmiPDF as "new in this release", since I never heard it mentioned in conjunction with the Enhancer package. I assume you describing it as "an update" refers to the original version that's part of AmigaOS 4.1?

[cgutjahr]

Ok, thanks.

[cgutjahr]

@Epsilon:

Can you be more specific about the "seamless integration" of Linux applications into the Amiga environment on ALICE? There are two way to 'integrate' this:

1. A simple AmigaOS (CLI) program that can run Linux applications. The Linux application's window is then drawn by Linux. It pops up in Front of the emulator and is simply themed to have the window borders look like an Amiga window. If they're using this approach, you can not 'mix' AmigaOS and Linux windows - it's impossible to switch Firefox' window to the back of the window stack and have a Workbench drawer or YAM's window display on top of it, for example.

2. Having a X Window server running on AmigaOS, and make the Linux applications send their GUI data to the Amiga X Windows server. This way the Linux application's window is drawn by AmigaOS, so the window behaves like a any other window on AmigaOS. It can be mixed with other windows, minimized or (theoretically) even be displayed on its own screen.

So far I was assuming they were using the former approach, because it's a lot less work and because the preview video released in March was carefully constructed so that the deficiencies of that approach wouldn't show. You praising the "seamless integration" makes me wonder if they're actually using the latter approach.

[cgutjahr]

@cgutjahr:
I wrote you a LONG message, but you don't accept private messages.  

Ouch, sorry to hear that :/ I do disable PMs and only accept emails whenever possible, because I prefer to have all my messages in one place (i.e. my mail program). Didn't know this forum software would let you actually write the entire message before telling you that you can't send it - that's kind of stupid.

Short answer:

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Thanks.