-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 2016-08-14 05:07, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Nathan England wrote: >> When I open Dolphin and click on Control->Help->About Dolphin and then >> select Version it says >> >> The xcb windowing system > > When Qt speaks about the "xcb windowing system", they really mean the X11 > windowing system, but there are 2 ways to access it: > 1. the legacy libX11 C library, and > 2. the modern XCB (X C Bindings) C library (libxcb). > For a while during Qt 5 development, both the old libX11 backend and the new > XCB one were present in Qt code, and thus they had to be distinguished. So > the new X11 backend using XCB was known as the "XCB backend", and the name > stuck. This also serves as a distinction in case it is not clear whether a > user is talking about Qt 4 (old X11 backend) or Qt 5 (new XCB backend). > > Kevin Kofler Thank you for the explanation. I would have assumed to read "KDE Windowing System" or something similar, but this makes sense, thanks again! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJXsTXIAAoJEOuk7+DwYjzgB10H/iok9ZhqC6huXzWsIj6e8Q2h 0fr689TmuvqDzT4xHe9POsu/RxwT+ZqLTsHwKre7rHu6cBWWXvadOfuZpRWVNAtg XTqPP8Qo1O5xZ98rEPRTMZGVGlx0MK1K66Ab49QBg3IUTBUhfkKHtRU9zoEwQiD4 i+I/B/lpMbaphOnXjD+1n3hWx5jGZfRzoTX3xrOwqA40TjvGRq4TQoriWxXG6KcH Imk3CXgAInk5RDGwRAxJ3AykjoQE//L+WozotCN3Hzw4qiGP8nDhcY5AWelY/iPU WHpjEpRUpFkHwHPnG8sJL87V32cEyeFQJ7rdxRjbbFJzEQ4YqViYSqvrRnYewcc= =H5t4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ kde mailing list kde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/kde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
