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electroly
on April 28, 2022
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Show HN: Xlibe – A serverless Xlib (X11) compatibi...
I'm curious why this approach was chosen for GTK, whereas Qt was ported directly. Is there some detail about GTK that made the approach taken with Qt infeasible?
waddlesplash
on April 28, 2022
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Yes: the GTK codebase is, uh, not fun to work with and write backends for. See my comment above (
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31192099
) and also one of my replies on the Haiku forums (
https://discuss.haiku-os.org/t/xlibe-an-xlib-x11-compatibili...
) for more details.
electroly
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7 kLOC is a lot smaller than I had guessed this must have been. Pretty cool!
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