Re: Should I port my custom UI toolkit to Wayland or GTK/QT?

2021-10-31 Thread Igor Korot
Hi, On Sun, Oct 31, 2021, 20:16 Brad Robinson wrote: > Hi Igor, > > Thanks for taking the time to answer. > > It sounds like you're suggesting porting the application to a new toolkit > rather than updating the toolkit? > IIUC, you application does not use any cross-platform toolkit - i.e.

Re: Should I port my custom UI toolkit to Wayland or GTK/QT?

2021-10-31 Thread Diego Hernan Borghetti
Sorry, reply using the wrong email. It was for Brad, not Igor. Best regards, Diego ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Monday, November 1st, 2021 at 1:45 AM, Diego Hernan Borghetti wrote: > Hi Igor, > > Moving or upgrading depends on the resource and requirements that you have. > Sometimes

Re: Should I port my custom UI toolkit to Wayland or GTK/QT?

2021-10-31 Thread Diego Hernan Borghetti
Hi Igor, Moving or upgrading depends on the resource and requirements that you have. Sometimes is better to use a toolkit, and others not. Even using a toolkit will add overhead to your app. What happens when there is a new version? (Gtk 2, 3, 4. Qt 4, 5, 6, etc) How complex is your

Re: Should I port my custom UI toolkit to Wayland or GTK/QT?

2021-10-31 Thread Brad Robinson
Hi Dorota, Thanks for the info... I wasn't aware of that text input protocol, that sounds very promising - hopefully they make good progress with that. Brad On Sat, Oct 30, 2021 at 7:24 PM Dorota Czaplejewicz < dorota.czaplejew...@puri.sm> wrote: > Hi Brad, > > On Sat, 30 Oct 2021 10:58:59

Re: Should I port my custom UI toolkit to Wayland or GTK/QT?

2021-10-31 Thread Brad Robinson
Hi Igor, Thanks for taking the time to answer. It sounds like you're suggesting porting the application to a new toolkit rather than updating the toolkit? As mentioned, that's not really feasible as I have literally hundreds of screens that would need to be ported. Porting my existing toolkit -

Re: Should I port my custom UI toolkit to Wayland or GTK/QT?

2021-10-30 Thread Dorota Czaplejewicz
Hi Brad, On Sat, 30 Oct 2021 10:58:59 +1100 Brad Robinson wrote: > 2. Are there options for IME and Accessibility for pure Wayland apps? Yes, there are at least 2 approaches: - embed the IME in your application, like GNOME/Mutter seems to be doing (I'm not super acquainted with that) - use

Re: Should I port my custom UI toolkit to Wayland or GTK/QT?

2021-10-29 Thread Igor Korot
Hi, On Fri, Oct 29, 2021 at 6:59 PM Brad Robinson wrote: > > Hey All, > > I have a custom UI toolkit that I initially developed for my music > application over 15 years ago. Currently it runs on Windows and OSX, and I'd > like to port it to Linux. > > The main thing I'm trying to decide is