Re: XLibre in Debian

On Fri, Oct 10, 2025 at 10:19:48AM +0200, Gerardo Ballabio wrote:
> Wojciech Lipinski wrote:
> > As a non-IT person
> > who is involved in development of specialized simulation software
> > (solar energy engineering), I feel uncertain about investing my time
> > in solutions compatible with X11 or with Wayland.
> 
> Hello Wojciech,
> I don't see why you should worry about that at all.
> You need not develop an application that talks the X11 or Wayland
> protocol directly. Nobody does that, it would be like reinventing the
> wheel. If you use one of the most common graphical toolkits (e.g.,
> Gtk+ or Qt), it is my understanding that they support both protocols
> transparently.

Not Wojcieh here, but... if you could propose something which is less
of a monster than Gtk of Qt, I'd be all ears!

Nearly 20 years ago I made a couple of Gtk applications (Gtk2 back
then), one of which is still in use. Having followed Gtk's development,
nowadays I'd pass, thankyouverymuch.

Today, I think I'd go with Tk or something.

Cheers
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