On Fri, Oct 10, 2025 at 10:43:15AM +0200, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote: > 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. Well, there is always Fltk, and some people would also mention wxWindows. G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev roam@ringlet.net roam@debian.org peter@morpheusly.com PGP key: https://www.ringlet.net/roam/roam.key.asc Key fingerprint 2EE7 A7A5 17FC 124C F115 C354 651E EFB0 2527 DF13
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