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

[David Niklas]

On Mon, 12 Jun 2017 21:30:51 -0400
Hendrik Boom <hendrik at topoi.pooq.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 10, 2017 at 10:27:47PM -0400, David Niklas wrote:
> > On Tue, 6 Jun 2017 22:50:20 +0100
> > Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl at lkcl.net> wrote:  
> > > On Tue, Jun 6, 2017 at 10:42 PM, Bill Kontos <vkontogpls at gmail.com>
> > > wrote:
> > >   
> > > > On Wed, Jun 7, 2017 at 12:22 AM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
> > > > <lkcl at lkcl.net    
> > > >> wrote:    
> > > >    
> > <snip>  
> > > > Is there any specific reasons as to why this is better ?    
> > > 
> > > They're not based on gnome (which in turn is based on GTK).  that
> > > alone is good enough reason.  
> > 
> > And GTK is bad because?
> > If I were to write a graphical app in C wouldn't I *have* to use
> > GTK?  
> 
> No.  GTK is the Gimp toolkit, originally written for the GNU image
> manipulation program.
> 
> 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)
>
> There's no reason other systems shouldn't be built directly on the X
> toolkit.

I've read that it's old, difficult to port programs/to/from other OSes
or X to wayland, and outdated. Thus, I read from others that my choices
are QT, GTK, the out dated and ugly Tk or the very rare, yet pretty Fox.

> Qt, is presumably another such system.
> 
> 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.
> 
> -- hendrik
> 
Isn't that what will happen with X as soon as people get fanatical about
wayland like they have done with systemd?

Thanks,
David