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FOSDEM: The Wayland display server

FOSDEM: The Wayland display server

Posted Feb 16, 2012 14:54 UTC (Thu) by khim (subscriber, #9252)
In reply to: FOSDEM: The Wayland display server by faramir
Parent article: FOSDEM: The Wayland display server

I'm also concerned about all of these toolkits that are being ported to Wayland. Will applications that are linked against them still talk to X Servers? Or is this something that a developer will have to decide when they build their application?

This depends on the toolkit, obviously, but GTK+ and Qt support plugable backends. I think GTK+ 3.0 was one of the last components which were needed before something like Wayland become feasible.

Note that even if toolkit itself supports switching application can still be tied to one implementation or the other.


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