On Thu, 28 Dec 2006 00:38:18 +0100, Guenther Noack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:

[...]

> I could also imagine that a clear indication that xlib is deprecated
> may help people outside the GNUstep project. For example when looking
> at Etoile, there are at least the MultimediaKit and the
> XWindowServerKit which directly talk to X11 (MMKit displays the
> Mplayer window in a GNUstep window). For authors of projects like
> these two, it may be very helpful to know that they won't have to
> support xlib in the future.

AFAIK, Etoile still needs to talk to X11 directly for those functions.
They are mostly for things that the *Step API does not handle
(e.g. switching desktops, embedding, etc.).

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