Re: [dev] Wayland

From: Nick <suckless-dev_AT_njw.me.uk>
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2012 15:52:01 +0000

On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 10:38:02AM -0500, Kurt H Maier wrote:
> In short, wayland manages to push everything including rendering onto
> the client, which means it's just going to get harder to write graphical
> programs without a toolkit. I regard this as a major flaw; this
> 'design decision' can only be the product of either laziness or poor
> judgment. If you're going to write a gui, at least have the sack to
> write a whole gui.

I disagree, presuming I understood you correctly. You just
draw stuff straight into an OpenGL buffer. Or get your
toolkit to do that. How is this not a reasonable thing to
do?
Received on Wed Feb 15 2012 - 16:52:01 CET