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Many userland applications don't use X libraries directly, but use a toolkit like Qt and GTK. Both projects are working on Wayland support [1, 2], bypassing X c
by ahomescu1 13y ago
Many userland applications don't use X libraries directly, but use a toolkit like Qt and GTK. Both projects are working on Wayland support [1, 2], bypassing X completely.
1 - http://wayland.freedesktop.org/qt5.html http://wayland.freedesktop.org/qt5.html
2 - http://wayland.freedesktop.org/gtk.html http://wayland.freedesktop.org/gtk.html
- krakensden 13y agoIt's worth noting that GTK+'s abstraction over X11 is fairly leaky in places- hence the always shaky state of its ports to Win & Mac. Qt has less trouble in this regard.