Re:US Navy will replace touchscreen with mechanical controls...
by TaylorAlexander on Sunday August 11, 2019 @02:10PM
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I really believe we would be better off if every piece of technology we used was open source. All the display manufacturers really want is to make displays. Making the OSD doesn’t have to be their doing, and an open source community could build a common interface with some basic button requirements. We could maintain a list of supported manufacturers and before long you know to avoid devices that don’t support it. This doesn’t happy because open source is uncommon in non-software industries, but I truly believe no one is maintaining any competitive advantage with their proprietary OSD. They could share their source with, I believe, no negative impact on competition. In fact the industry would be healthier because consumer friction would be lower.
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Re:US Navy will replace touchscreen with mechanical controls...
by sitkack on Sunday August 11, 2019 @09:07PM
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This is a great idea.
Or make monitors have a USB device profile, or just use the serial profile and have a command response protocol (http rest) for query and setting configuration. Standardize this protocol.
Now all displays could be configured using external standardized logic. I'd prefer something over SPI, but either is really ok.
Re:US Navy will replace touchscreen with mechanical controls...
by PrototypeNM1 on Monday August 12, 2019 @02:31AM
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DDC/CI?