Re: Proposal to deprecate Xlib backend

[Yen-Ju Chen]

On 12/28/06, Hubert Chan <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Dec 2006 00:38:18 +0100, Guenther Noack <address@hidden> said:
>
> [...]
>
> > I could also imagine that a clear indication that xlib is deprecated
> > may help people outside the GNUstep project. For example when looking
> > at Etoile, there are at least the MultimediaKit and the
> > XWindowServerKit which directly talk to X11 (MMKit displays the
> > Mplayer window in a GNUstep window). For authors of projects like
> > these two, it may be very helpful to know that they won't have to
> > support xlib in the future.
>
> AFAIK, Etoile still needs to talk to X11 directly for those functions.
> They are mostly for things that the *Step API does not handle
> (e.g. switching desktops, embedding, etc.).

 I think people are talking about using X11 for drawing,
 not window and even handling in this case.
 So deprecating x11 backend does not affect the use of X11.

 Yen-Ju

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