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LFCS 2012: X and Wayland

Posted Apr 13, 2012 11:24 UTC (Fri) by jengelh (subscriber, #33263)
In reply to: LFCS 2012: X and Wayland by renox
Parent article: LFCS 2012: X and Wayland

>Look, most applications will use a toolkit

It's not about those that do, but about those which don't. Even if Qt and GTK start drawing the deco, there is still SDL and glut, for example.

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Posted Apr 13, 2012 11:39 UTC (Fri) by renox (subscriber, #23785) [Link]

So? As I said above I don't expect that this will be a big issue because the 'social forces' which makes current applications look&behave 'identically' will still be here with Wayland.