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Sucking power
Sucking power
Posted Sep 13, 2007 15:57 UTC (Thu) by rfunk (subscriber, #4054)In reply to: Sucking power by JoeBuck
Parent article: LinuxConf.eu wrapup
Of course, in our case I would think that the Qt and Gtk+ libraries should
be able to deal with much of those problems themselves, centralizing the
problem. I suspect few people these days run apps that talk directly to
the X server.
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Sucking power
Posted Sep 20, 2007 6:14 UTC (Thu) by tuna (guest, #44480) [Link]
Those libraries are dealing with the problem, look at the new polling functions in Glib such as g_timeout_add_seconds ().