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From: | Yen-Ju Chen |
Subject: | Re: Proposal to deprecate Xlib backend |
Date: | Thu, 28 Dec 2006 17:25:16 -0800 |
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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