On Thu, 2006-10-05 at 18:42 -0400, Bill Cunningham wrote: > Sounds to me more and more that X11 is more irrelevant to gtk and gdk. Ideally Gdk should have an abstraction layer sufficient that only a thin gdk backend layer is needed for any windowing system, such as X11 or Win32. This is becoming a reality. There used to be a lot of X11-isms both in Gtk and Gdk in the past. Things are much more portable now. Gdk does still needs to know how to talk to X11 (just like on windows it needs to talk to the win32 GDI). It's that part that is rewritten to talk to a framebuffer directly, or to Win32. This is off-topic, but it's my opinion the framebuffer target is most often not going to buy you anything. On embedded devices you may as well run the kdrive tiny X server rather than use the framebuffer since if you use the framebuffer, GdkFB has to implement windowing itself, which is just doing things that Kdrive and a good tiny window manager already do well. Michael > > > Bill > _______________________________________________ > gtk-list mailing list > gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list > _______________________________________________ gtk-list mailing list gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
