On Mon, 12 Jun 2017 21:30:51 -0400 Hendrik Boom hendrik@topoi.pooq.com wrote:
On Sat, Jun 10, 2017 at 10:27:47PM -0400, David Niklas wrote:
On Tue, 6 Jun 2017 22:50:20 +0100 Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton lkcl@lkcl.net wrote:
On Tue, Jun 6, 2017 at 10:42 PM, Bill Kontos vkontogpls@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Jun 7, 2017 at 12:22 AM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl@lkcl.net
wrote:
<snip> > > Is there any specific reasons as to why this is better ? > > They're not based on gnome (which in turn is based on GTK). that > alone is good enough reason.
And GTK is bad because? If I were to write a graphical app in C wouldn't I *have* to use GTK?
No. GTK is the Gimp toolkit, originally written for the GNU image manipulation program.
It uses (presumably) the X toolkit (I don't kow its name), which is the low-level interface to sending and receiving the network packets for the X protocol with the ICCC -- the inter-client communications conventions, which goern communicataions with a window manager. (I don't know how much of this is now obsolete i ws using X in the 80's, and I gather it at least hs remained more or less compatible; there's a lot less flexibility in X nowadays, as far as I cana tell)
There's no reason other systems shouldn't be built directly on the X toolkit.
I've read that it's old, difficult to port programs/to/from other OSes or X to wayland, and outdated. Thus, I read from others that my choices are QT, GTK, the out dated and ugly Tk or the very rare, yet pretty Fox.
Qt, is presumably another such system.
And the problems with GTK is that the developers have mpved on to another major release that, I'm told, isn't very compatible and old code is dying. It's another of the systems that have been forked. I don't know how well the old release is being maintained.
-- hendrik
Isn't that what will happen with X as soon as people get fanatical about wayland like they have done with systemd?
Thanks, David