Re: Should I port my custom UI toolkit to Wayland or GTK/QT?

2021-10-31 Thread Igor Korot
Hi, On Sun, Oct 31, 2021, 20:16 Brad Robinson wrote: > Hi Igor, > > Thanks for taking the time to answer. > > It sounds like you're suggesting porting the application to a new toolkit > rather than updating the toolkit? > IIUC, you application does not use any cross-platform toolkit - i.e.

Re: Should I port my custom UI toolkit to Wayland or GTK/QT?

2021-10-31 Thread Diego Hernan Borghetti
Sorry, reply using the wrong email. It was for Brad, not Igor. Best regards, Diego ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Monday, November 1st, 2021 at 1:45 AM, Diego Hernan Borghetti wrote: > Hi Igor, > > Moving or upgrading depends on the resource and requirements that you have. > Sometimes

Re: Should I port my custom UI toolkit to Wayland or GTK/QT?

2021-10-31 Thread Diego Hernan Borghetti
Hi Igor, Moving or upgrading depends on the resource and requirements that you have. Sometimes is better to use a toolkit, and others not. Even using a toolkit will add overhead to your app. What happens when there is a new version? (Gtk 2, 3, 4. Qt 4, 5, 6, etc) How complex is your

Re: Should I port my custom UI toolkit to Wayland or GTK/QT?

2021-10-31 Thread Brad Robinson
Hi Dorota, Thanks for the info... I wasn't aware of that text input protocol, that sounds very promising - hopefully they make good progress with that. Brad On Sat, Oct 30, 2021 at 7:24 PM Dorota Czaplejewicz < dorota.czaplejew...@puri.sm> wrote: > Hi Brad, > > On Sat, 30 Oct 2021 10:58:59

Re: Should I port my custom UI toolkit to Wayland or GTK/QT?

2021-10-31 Thread Brad Robinson
Hi Igor, Thanks for taking the time to answer. It sounds like you're suggesting porting the application to a new toolkit rather than updating the toolkit? As mentioned, that's not really feasible as I have literally hundreds of screens that would need to be ported. Porting my existing toolkit -

Re: Should I port my custom UI toolkit to Wayland or GTK/QT?

2021-10-30 Thread Dorota Czaplejewicz
Hi Brad, On Sat, 30 Oct 2021 10:58:59 +1100 Brad Robinson wrote: > 2. Are there options for IME and Accessibility for pure Wayland apps? Yes, there are at least 2 approaches: - embed the IME in your application, like GNOME/Mutter seems to be doing (I'm not super acquainted with that) - use

Re: Should I port my custom UI toolkit to Wayland or GTK/QT?

2021-10-29 Thread Igor Korot
Hi, On Fri, Oct 29, 2021 at 6:59 PM Brad Robinson wrote: > > Hey All, > > I have a custom UI toolkit that I initially developed for my music > application over 15 years ago. Currently it runs on Windows and OSX, and I'd > like to port it to Linux. > > The main thing I'm trying to decide is

Should I port my custom UI toolkit to Wayland or GTK/QT?

2021-10-29 Thread Brad Robinson
Hey All, I have a custom UI toolkit that I initially developed for my music application over 15 years ago. Currently it runs on Windows and OSX, and I'd like to port it to Linux. The main thing I'm trying to decide is whether to port directly to Wayland or to a higher level UI toolkit like GTK