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[Joel Feiner]

On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 12:28 PM, Piotr Gluszenia Slawinski <
curious at bwv190.internetdsl.tpnet.pl> wrote:

> Nima Sahraneshin <unix.nima at gmail.com> 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).
>

It's not that bad.

>
> coding either directly for X or using lighter toolkits (i.e. fltk)
> has some point, and saves royal withdrawal after royal painkillers.
>

It may save you from API changes from time to time, but you get no
interoperability with other apps or DEs, no portability to other OSes; your
app looks terrible and nobody is going to want to maintain some Xlib code
when Qt/GTK is much better documented, well-supported and considerably more
functional.  I honestly can't see any benefit to using Xlib directly in this
day and age.

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