Re: Another XLibre and/or Wayland subthread

Chris Ahlstrom <[email protected]> Wed, 29 Jul 2026 08:19:56 -0400
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.misc
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Charlie Gibbs wrote this screed in ALL-CAPS (fixed):

> 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++.

Just add wrapper classes.

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