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Re: XLibre in Debian

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On Fri, Oct 10, 2025 at 10:19:48AM +0200, Gerardo Ballabio wrote:
> Wojciech Lipinski wrote:
> > As a non-IT person
> > who is involved in development of specialized simulation software
> > (solar energy engineering), I feel uncertain about investing my time
> > in solutions compatible with X11 or with Wayland.
> 
> Hello Wojciech,
> I don't see why you should worry about that at all.
> You need not develop an application that talks the X11 or Wayland
> protocol directly. Nobody does that, it would be like reinventing the
> wheel. If you use one of the most common graphical toolkits (e.g.,
> Gtk+ or Qt), it is my understanding that they support both protocols
> transparently.

Not Wojcieh here, but... if you could propose something which is less
of a monster than Gtk of Qt, I'd be all ears!

Nearly 20 years ago I made a couple of Gtk applications (Gtk2 back
then), one of which is still in use. Having followed Gtk's development,
nowadays I'd pass, thankyouverymuch.

Today, I think I'd go with Tk or something.

Cheers
-- 
t

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Re: XLibre in Debian Gerardo Ballabio <gerardo.ballabio@gmail.com> - 2025-10-10 10:40 +0200
  Re: XLibre in Debian <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2025-10-10 11:00 +0200
    GUI toolkits [Was: Re: XLibre in Debian] Peter Pentchev <roam@ringlet.net> - 2025-10-10 11:40 +0200
      Re: GUI toolkits [Was: Re: XLibre in Debian] <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2025-10-10 12:10 +0200
  Re: XLibre in Debian wlipinski@posteo.net - 2025-10-10 19:50 +0200

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