X11 fullscreen

[Russell Shaw]

Rémi Cardona wrote:
> Le 29/01/2010 00:41, Russell Shaw a écrit :
>> 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.
> 
> Right, so let me sum up.
> 
> Dirk wants to write a full-screen app, with very little interaction with
> other windows. This is a trivial task for _any_ modern toolkit (gtk, qt,
> efl, sdl, hell even motif or swing, etc).
> 
> Your suggestion to Dirk is for him to completely _ignore_ the current
> toolkits and to start all over from scratch, dropping 10~15 years worth
> of common knowledge from all the current X-based toolkits.
> 
> Dirk, please try using one of the current toolkits first. And if you
> don't like one, try another one, don't write Xlib code directly. That's
> the toolkit guys' problem, it shouldn't be yours.

One challenge: make cairo or gtk drawing full-screen run fast on any current
system, or else have it tell your app that such-n-such a feature is not going
to be accelerated. All i see in linux gui apps is 10 years of stagnation. And
no, i will not use C++ for *anything*.