Re: Developing a GTK2 GUI

> > > >- do window management for video window too, including fullscreen
> > > >switching,
> > > >  setting title, always-on-top and such attributes... you should knoe
> > > >better.
> > > >  (it can be done in x11-util.c too, but i was told that in gui 
>'mode' it
> > > >  must be done by the gui, to be able to swap gui and video windows
> > > >  overlapping or so.)
> > >
> > > The less X code the better.  Still, I'm sure there is code that can be 
>used
> > > by everyone
> > > (using X) and it will be handy to have it in one place.  I have to 
>look into
> > > it more.
>
>Hmm, maybe we should keep in mind, that gtk(2) is already usable on 
>multiple
>X-less 'platforms', like linux framebuffer, win32 etc.
>So if possible, X and gtk code shouldn't be mixed (like it was done in G1's 
>gui)

Sorry, didn't mean to imply that I would ever put raw X code in with my 
code.  Will not happen.
However, there might be something I cannot do from GTK/GDK/GLib and I will 
need to call X
directly.  Should that happen I would put the X code in an appropriately 
named external
function so it does not hurt portability.  Please note that I do not expect 
this to happen, but you
guys do some really low-level things so I'm just not sure yet.

BTW, I'm hoping the GTK version will be good enough that no one will 'need' 
to write a native
win32 version.  XChat is really impressive on win32 and Gaim is getting 
there.  Might be there, it's been a long time since I've tried it.

>A'rpi / Astral & ESP-team

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