Ken Moffat wrote: > I may be wrong, but the postings on Wayland which I've read at > lwn.net implied that only gtk+-3 (possibly, with xfce, definitely > with gnome) and Qt/kde are supported. Neither are what I would > describe as lightweight ;) >
There's some support for SDL with Wayland. Not sure if it's in SDL 1.2 or 2.0 though. SDL 2.0 is being released this month, but most applications I've run across or am using are still designed for 1.2. I did ask on the FLTK mailing list about possible Wayland support. They said they weren't planning any. Since Wayland will have some support for X applications (according to FAQ it will be able to run a root-less X server as a client), they're planning on using that instead of porting FLTK to work with Wayland. FLTK 1.3 does work well on Nano-X though if one wants to avoid full X support on a system. Another lightweight user interface some applications use is curses (either pdcurses or ncurses). Pdcurses can run via SDL, so I guess that gives some Wayland support if SDL 1.2 works on Wayland. There's Fox Toolkit which was popular with lightweight distributions. Not sure how much it's being used now. Most of the applications that work with it are designed for version 1.6, but the current version is 1.7. 1.7 offers some internationalization support and a few nice applications like fxite work with it. However, am not seeing the other applications that were designed for 1.6 being updated for 1.7. Leaves me wondering which version, if any, lightweight distributions are using now. I looked into WxWidgets as a lightweight GUI alternative, but it needs GTK+ on Posix systems and the embedded alternatives didn't seem stable enough to build the applications I wanted (like audacity, filezilla). If someone else has better luck with it, I'd be interested in hearing about it. Sincerely, Laura
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