Eirik Byrkjeflot Anonsen wrote: > Russell Shaw <rjs...@netspace.net.au> writes: > >> Dirk De Becker wrote: >>> Tom,
... >> Forget widget toolkits. They're totally lame wrappers that hide >> all the useful functionality from you, run like a waterlogged >> sheep, and otherwise assume you don't want to get anything really >> nontrivial running this month. > > I think opinions are somewhat divided on that point. > > A good toolkit lets you do pretty much anything you want with much less > work, and no significant performance cost. (Frequently with higher > performance, as someone has probably spent a fair bit of effort > investigating how to get optimal performance out of the underlying > system.) ... What i really meant was "Forget existing widget toolkits". One can write their own that is much better than the existing ones, if you architect the thing right. Doing that is not a small job. Takes a lot of time just to think about before even writing any code. _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list xorg@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg