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Is 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 mi
by ithkuil 14y ago
Is 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.