On Mon, 2011-02-21 at 21:14 -0500, Paul Davis wrote: > On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 6:12 PM, Fons Adriaensen <f...@linuxaudio.org> wrote: > > > This excludes Windows (TM), but again, I couln't care less. > > It also excludes OS X, which despite having "X11 support" isn't really > what you mean by "supports X11". > > at some point, focusing on X11 will also start to exclude the next > generation of linux UI systems which are not going to be X11 (even > though they are re-using a lot of the internal code and can host X11 > windows). once you've seen them in action, i think that even you will > be a believer :) I'm talking primarily about Wayland > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayland_%28display_server_protocol%29
It also excludes framebuffer based toolkits (which Gtk can be), which is a good solution for embedded stuff, or what we call "hardware" here in music land... not to mention smart phones / tablets / etc, which at this point is hilariously short-sighted to exclude at the outset. > it also excludes GL based systems, which to be perfectly honest appear > to be have been a MUCH better starting point if you writing a GUI at > any point in the last 12 years than X. i deeply regret not basing > ardour on a toolkit that sat on top of GL rather than X11 - GL is more > portable, and has lots of nice features that don't show up in a lot of > programs but are real nonetheless. Yep.. boy do I wish I just did everything in GL... -dr _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list Linux-audio-dev@lists.linuxaudio.org http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-dev