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X (Desktop) library obsolescence question

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From	Jason Nunn <jsno8192@adam.com.au>
Subject	X (Desktop) library obsolescence question
Message-ID	<EICdnYhcEbwvhdvTnZ2dnUVZ_tSdnZ2d@adnap.net.au> (permalink)
Date	2011-08-13 01:24 -0500

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Hello All

I want to write a simple desktop app that displays my network usage.
I'm now deciding which library to use (GTK, KDE, Qt,OpenGL etc). I have
a question about library obsolescence.

When KDE came out (and the GUI libraries for writing KDE apps), the
authors would do complete GUI function revamps (which was
understandable in it's early days). Your program would require it to be
rewritten every year. I got sick of this after a few years and stopped
using KDE. I haven't returned.

I have written an app about 8 years ago in GTK V2, and I loved
the experience. However, returning to it after a few years, I notived
that V3 is now available, and the functions I want to use are
depreciated by a completely different set that are used and behave
differently.. So as with KDE, the poor old app authors that have
developed V2 GTK apps now have to put in a big development effort to
learn and then make their apps work with future GTK versions.

Is there a X library that has remained unchanged and will remain
unchanged ?. The only one I can think of that remains strong backward
compatibility is OpenGL.

Thanks for any advice :)

J

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X (Desktop) library obsolescence question Jason Nunn <jsno8192@adam.com.au> - 2011-08-13 01:24 -0500
  Re: X (Desktop) library obsolescence question Jan Panteltje <pNaonStpealmtje@yahoo.com> - 2011-08-13 09:10 +0000
    Re: X (Desktop) library obsolescence question Jason Nunn <jsno8192@adam.com.au> - 2011-08-13 06:10 -0500
      Re: X (Desktop) library obsolescence question jt@toerring.de (Jens Thoms Toerring) - 2011-08-13 18:55 +0000
  Re: X (Desktop) library obsolescence question Jasen Betts <jasen@xnet.co.nz> - 2011-08-13 09:18 +0000
    Re: X (Desktop) library obsolescence question Jason Nunn <jsno8192@adam.com.au> - 2011-08-13 06:15 -0500
  Re: X (Desktop) library obsolescence question John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com> - 2011-08-13 06:27 -0500

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