nanogui: NanoX version 0.3 released
Subject:
RE: NanoX version 0.3 released
From:
Alex Holden ####@####.####
Date:
11 May 1999 09:53:13 -0000
Message-Id: <Pine.LNX.4.04.9905111039190.13633-100000@www.linuxhacker.org>
On Tue, 11 May 1999, Alexander Peuchert wrote:
> > > nano server <-> nano API looking like a cut down GDK <-> thin GDK
> > compatibility layer, other toolkit or app <-> other apps
> Well, with a cut down GDK not exactly like the original GDK, GTK apps wont
> run ...
Note the "thin GDK compatibility layer". Don't put GDK itself into the
nano-X client library, just something which is close enough that the extra
library needed to make it into a full GDK API is very small, but without
any of the unnecessary bloat.
> You/We could provide the complete GDK API, but provide dummy functions for
> parts that aren't supported.
Why not provide the complete GDK API, but with the part inappropriate for
nano-X itself in a seperate library?
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