Alan Cox wrote: >> Forget widget toolkits. They're totally lame wrappers that hide >> all the useful functionality from you, run like a waterlogged >> sheep, and otherwise assume you don't want to get anything really >> nontrivial running this month. > > Unless you need to get any real work done - like non western font > rendering, accessibility (to make your app meet legal requirements in > parts of the world etc)
One can do all that with their own libraries based on Xlib. I don't use any Xlib font functions. > I'm also not sure why you'd want to use Xlib nowdays. I mean Xlib has a > serial non-threaded model without callbacks that causes apps to block > on queries - problems you won't have if you hand code the X11 message > parser yourself in optimised assembler ;) No way to avoid it. You can't draw on a window until you've waited for the first expose event etc. Is Xlib thread re-entrant? If not, i may do something about that. _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list xorg@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg