On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 9:28 AM, Piotr Gluszenia Slawinski <[email protected]> wrote: >> Nima Sahraneshin <[email protected]> writes: >> >>> Hi >>> >>> I want to write a program based on X .I need some documentation about >>> X (using X) . >> >> Assuming that you want to make an "ordinary" application that is going >> to run under X, you really want to use a toolkit. These days, Qt >> (http://qt.nokia.com/) and Gtk (http://www.gtk.org/) are probably the >> best alternatives. >> >> They are much easier to work with than coding directly for X, and they >> do a lot of things for you that is otherwise a royal pain to get right. > > they both have serious shortcomings, and bugs, which make > target application either non-functional after routine API changes (nokia) > or bloated, buggy and slow (gtk). > > coding either directly for X or using lighter toolkits (i.e. fltk) > has some point, and saves royal withdrawal after royal painkillers.
Are you *seriously* recommending that people code raw Xlib? I can understand if you yourself are a masochist, but please, don't make other people suffer just because you have bad taste. -- When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir? ~ Keynes Corbin Simpson <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ [email protected]: X.Org support Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg Info: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg Your subscription address: [email protected]
