On Mon, 12 Jun 2017 21:30:51 -0400 Hendrik Boom <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Jun 10, 2017 at 10:27:47PM -0400, David Niklas wrote: > > On Tue, 6 Jun 2017 22:50:20 +0100 > > Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Tue, Jun 6, 2017 at 10:42 PM, Bill Kontos <[email protected]> > > > wrote: > > > > > > > On Wed, Jun 7, 2017 at 12:22 AM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton > > > > <[email protected] > > > >> wrote: > > > > > > <snip> > > > > Is there any specific reasons as to why this is better ? > > > > > > They're not based on gnome (which in turn is based on GTK). that > > > alone is good enough reason. > > > > And GTK is bad because? > > If I were to write a graphical app in C wouldn't I *have* to use > > GTK? > > No. GTK is the Gimp toolkit, originally written for the GNU image > manipulation program. > > It uses (presumably) the X toolkit (I don't kow its name), which is the > low-level interface to sending and receiving the network packets for > the X protocol with the ICCC -- the inter-client communications > conventions, which goern communicataions with a window manager. (I > don't know how much of this is now obsolete i ws using X in the 80's, > and I gather it at least hs remained more or less compatible; there's a > lot less flexibility in X nowadays, as far as I cana tell) > > There's no reason other systems shouldn't be built directly on the X > toolkit.
I've read that it's old, difficult to port programs/to/from other OSes or X to wayland, and outdated. Thus, I read from others that my choices are QT, GTK, the out dated and ugly Tk or the very rare, yet pretty Fox. > Qt, is presumably another such system. > > And the problems with GTK is that the developers have mpved on to > another major release that, I'm told, isn't very compatible and old > code is dying. It's another of the systems that have been forked. I > don't know how well the old release is being maintained. > > -- hendrik > Isn't that what will happen with X as soon as people get fanatical about wayland like they have done with systemd? Thanks, David _______________________________________________ arm-netbook mailing list [email protected] http://lists.phcomp.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/arm-netbook Send large attachments to [email protected]
