Re: Another XLibre and/or Wayland subthread

On 2026-07-27, rbowman <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Mon, 27 Jul 2026 16:40:48 +0000, Farley Flud wrote:
>
>> Well, guess what.  IBM/RedHat controls the development of GTK+
>> and they will most like pull the plug on X11 compatibility in the
>> future.
>> Only Wayland (surprise, surprise) will be supported.
>
> Who controls Qt?  I never liked Gtk but I've been playing with it lately. 
> I still don't like it. Ridiculously long function names that all start 
> with gtk_ are a pain in the ass.
>
> It's ironic Gtk was developed because Qt wasn't 'free'. Be careful of what 
> you wish for.

I haven't done much GUI programming in Linux.  I'd like to port my Windows
stuff and I've done some experimenting, but I wound up using GTK instead
of Qt simply because only GTK has C bindings and I didn't want to have to
rewrite everything in C++.

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