Le jeudi 21 février 2008, à 14:58 -0500, Paul Davis a écrit : > On Thu, 2008-02-21 at 16:21 -0300, Tiago Vignatti wrote: > > > > > One major change happened not so long ago (I think 1.0 version was > > released in 2007) was the migration from Xlib to a new low-level > > implementation of the X protocol in C, the XCB [0] which provides a > > foundation for toolkits to build upon. Probably none of the biggest > > toolkits use XCB. > > unlike many of the various X extensions, XCB has never received > ratification from any X-related standards group. information about it > online makes it appear that development on it is mostly dead, with > several "rare but annoying bugs" remaining.
Last time I tried Ubuntu, the libx11 package (Xlib if you prefer) depended on XCB: http://packages.ubuntu.com/hardy/libx11-6 Also, the mailing list seems quite active: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xcb/ Doesn't look dead to me... Vincent -- Les gens heureux ne sont pas pressés. _______________________________________________ Desktop_architects mailing list [email protected] https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop_architects
