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Bigger burn than reentry. You're right though, this feels a bit like not developed here syndrome. X is horrible to hack on top, and has had a good run but Wayl
by nicholassmith 14y ago
Bigger burn than reentry.
You're right though, this feels a bit like not developed here syndrome. X is horrible to hack on top, and has had a good run but Wayland could be a fantastic base for them, especially given Qt has spent time working on it.
- ithkuil 14y agoIs it possible that once toolkits like qt and gtk have been ported to simpler/more direct APIs like wayland (w.r.t X11), porting them to other APIs like this mir would be easier than starting from scratch?
- nicholassmith 14y agoPossibly, but I've followed some of the Qt Wayland development and it looks like they've hit problems on a fairly regular basis. When you're building GUI toolkits you're also including a certain amount of understanding of the weird corner cases from the windowing system, so you're ending up porting a large chunk of code and then working out what's broken. Although, Qt might have it a bit easier as they've switched to drawing their GUI components with OpenGL.