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Re: Touchscreen support
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Richard Stallman |
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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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