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[Rémi Cardona]

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.

Cheers,

Rémi