Re: [dev] Suckless and Wayland

From: Charlie Kester <corky1951_AT_comcast.net>
Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2013 00:08:54 -0800

On 02/13/2013 20:15, Sam Watkins wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 07:20:10PM -0500, Strake wrote:
>>> because major distribs like Fedora or Ubuntu plan to use it.
>>
>> They can use clay tablets for all I care.
>
> there is no way any linux distro in the foreseeable future will drop
> support for Xlib, that would be ridiculous. If they use Weyland,
> there will have to be an X emulation library for it. That's all.

Agreed.

There are too many man-hours invested in applications based on Xlib.

I wouldn't worry about it until libraries like Gtk and Qt have been
ported. But even then, there are hundreds or thousands of apps that
use Xlib directly.
Received on Thu Feb 14 2013 - 09:08:54 CET