Re: Another XLibre and/or Wayland subthread
Chris Ahlstrom <[email protected]> Wed, 29 Jul 2026 08:19:56 -0400
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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. -- "The road to hell is paved with melting snowballs." -- Larry Wall in <[email protected]>