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Re: Touchscreen support


From: Richard Stallman
Subject: Re: Touchscreen support
Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2022 00:07:50 -0500

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  > These days, one
  > might instead use a GTK4 or QT mail reader, and those toolkits would only
  > "promise support" for code that made gtk or qt calls; the programmer isn't
  > exactly prohibited from using X11 calls, but doing so is not recommended
  > nor supported, and if the programmer runs into trouble, they are very
  > likely to be told "you're breaking the abstraction barrier we set; remove
  > it and then come back with your problem".

What happens if one asks them, "How do I solve the problem XYZ without
doing an X11 call?"

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Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org)
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