[Xcb] Porting the rest of the X.Org apps to xcb

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

   Hello,

On Fri, 16 Jul 2010 07:39:16 -0700, Alan Coopersmith
<alan.coopersmith at oracle.com> wrote:
> But every app we port ourselves gives us more insight into what is needed
> to port apps, and figure out how to make it easier for
authors/maintainers
> of the much more complicated apps out there in the rest of the world.

Most of "the much more complicated apps" use X through some kind of UI
toolkit framework. So I would guess that porting one of those frameworks is
what's most "needed to port apps". Keeping in mind that things like GTK, Qt
and the likes are intended to *hide* the underlying windowing system, most
out there applications do not actually use Xlib directly at all.

And then there's the impossible case of GLX :-(


Just for the self-centric purely informative reference, the remaining Xlib
stumbling blocks in (Lib)VLC are:
 - GLX,
 - libSDL,
 - ASCII Art (don't ask me why libaa needs libX11 ?!),
 - PulseAudio (libpulse),
 - Qt4,
 - VLC's own skin engine,
of which only the last item is up to VLC developers to address.

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Rémi Denis-Courmont
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