[Arm-netbook] Fwd: [trinity-devel] TDE Fundraiser

[Neil Jansen]

On Mon, Jun 12, 2017 at 9:30 PM, Hendrik Boom <hendrik at topoi.pooq.com>
wrote:
>
> It uses (presumably) the X toolkit (I don't kow its name), which is the
> low-level interface to sending and receiving the network packets for the X
> protocol with the ICCC -- the inter-client communications conventions,
which
> goern communicataions with a window manager.  (I don't know how much of
this
> is now obsolete i ws using X in the 80's, and I gather it at least hs
remained
> more or less compatible; there's a lot less flexibility in X nowadays, as
far
> as I cana tell)

The two big ones are xcb (https://xcb.freedesktop.org/) and xlib (
https://tronche.com/gui/x/xlib/)


> There's no reason other systems shouldn't be built directly on the X
toolkit.

Many tiling window managers (http://lmgtfy.com/?t=i&q=i3-gaps) do exactly
that.  They build directly on top of xlib or xcb, and they're freaking
awesome.  I'm REALLY surprised that nobody has mentioned any of the popular
tiling window managers like i3 in this thread.  They're so lightweight and
usable, why would you need Gnome or KDE?

> And the problems with GTK is that the developers have mpved on to another
major
> release that, I'm told, isn't very compatible and old code is dying.
> It's another of the systems that have been forked.  I don't know how well
the
> old release is being maintained.

Look at some of the tiling window managers: i3, bspwm, xmonad are 3 popular
ones.  If you hate gnome and you hate KDE, these are all worth a look.