X11 fullscreen

[Russell Shaw]

Russell Shaw wrote:
> Daniel Stone wrote:
>> On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 12:04:41AM +1100, Russell Shaw wrote:
>>> Daniel Stone wrote:
>>>> On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 10:53:11AM +1100, Russell Shaw wrote:

...

>> He doesn't want non-trivial widgets, he wants full-screen and a menu,
>> remember? That's not something that requires fixing a toolkit.
> 
> I suggested avoiding full toolkits and use glut. The rest just got
> out of hand. I originally went to "just use a toolkit" when i wanted
> to make a simple cad program. That didn't get me anywhere useful.
> I don't suggest the usual toolkits for anything non-trivial,
> and that needs some amount of speed such as drawing or dragging
> objects with a mouse. Qt may be useable for anyone that tolerates C++.

Cairo in gtk may be useable to a degree. I still see reports of speed
problems. It is too high-level for me. It has an advantage of drawing to
multiple contexts such as a printer or pdf etc.