[yocto] Building your own UI

[autif khan]

> This may be a dumb question, but I'll ask anyway.
>
> Suppose you have a project where you need a very custom user interface. Not
> just a series of applications that appear on a desktop like you see in sato,
> or Gnome, or KDE.  Basically your application becomes the UI.
>
> I can see 2 approaches to this:
>
> Start with core-image-minimal and add the packages you need to support GFX,
> X11, and your application plus dependencies.
> Take core-image-sato and change the applications to be your subtasks , and
> the look-and-feel of the desktop.
>
> What are the considerations of both approaches?
> Is one better, or easier than the other?
> How would you do this in Yocto?
> Where do you look for information you need to accomplish this?

We are still in the very early stages of architecture design and development

For now we are leaning towards keeping everything that comes with
core-image-sato and writing a full screen app on top of it. Likely to
be written in .NET (mono). A prototype (proof of concept) has been
successfully developed :-)

As I said - still in very early stages of arch/design and dev. So
things may still change.