How does PicoGUI compare to Fresco?
Fresco is another GUI (http://fresco.org) that has some similarities to PicoGUI. Fresco has been around for quite a while longer than PicoGUI, but when PicoGUI was started MicahDowty? didn’t know about Fresco. • Similarities between PicoGUI and Fresco • Standard widgets on the server side • Separation between applications and device coordinates • Server keeps a scene graph • New GUI architecture, with no backward compatibility • Language-independent client/server protocol • Differences between PicoGUI and Fresco • PicoGUI takes a lot of shortcuts compared to Fresco, to make it more suitable for embedded systems • Fresco uses device independent coordinates everywhere, while PicoGUI’s themes and layout engine still use pixels • Fresco uses CORBA, while PicoGUI has its own network protocol • There’s nothing like PicoGUI’s theme interpreter in Fresco • Fresco handles overlapping, and uses a homogeneous scene graph making it more suitable for generic drawing apps and desktop window manageme
