Rémi Cardona wrote: > Le 29/01/2010 00:41, Russell Shaw a écrit : >> What i really meant was "Forget existing widget toolkits". One can write >> their own that is much better than the existing ones, if you architect the >> thing right. Doing that is not a small job. Takes a lot of time just to >> think about before even writing any code. > > Right, so let me sum up. > > Dirk wants to write a full-screen app, with very little interaction with > other windows. This is a trivial task for _any_ modern toolkit (gtk, qt, > efl, sdl, hell even motif or swing, etc). > > Your suggestion to Dirk is for him to completely _ignore_ the current > toolkits and to start all over from scratch, dropping 10~15 years worth > of common knowledge from all the current X-based toolkits. > > Dirk, please try using one of the current toolkits first. And if you > don't like one, try another one, don't write Xlib code directly. That's > the toolkit guys' problem, it shouldn't be yours.
One challenge: make cairo or gtk drawing full-screen run fast on any current system, or else have it tell your app that such-n-such a feature is not going to be accelerated. All i see in linux gui apps is 10 years of stagnation. And no, i will not use C++ for *anything*. _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list xorg@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg