• lemmyvore@feddit.nl
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    6 months ago

    When the widget toolkit needs explicit and direct support for the graphics server you’re doing something very wrong.

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      6 months ago

      The way I see it, GTK is really a framework for building cross-platform GUI apps. Then handling display server compatibility makes perfect sense to me.

      If this was meant to be a dig at Wayland, I’m pretty sure GTK also needs explicit and direct support for X11, Windows and MacOS. It just already exists.

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        6 months ago

        It’s not a dig at Wayland. You really don’t want to have to add specific support for the OS directly in your widget library. There should be an abstraction layer in-between that deals with that. If that layer had been there they wouldn’t have to rewrite the whole thing.