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On Mon, 2011-02-21 at 21:14 -0500, Paul Davis wrote:

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> On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 6:12 PM, Fons Adriaensen  wrote:

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> > This excludes Windows (TM), but again, I couln't care less.

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> It also excludes OS X, which despite having "X11 support" isn't really

> what you mean by "supports X11".

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> at some point, focusing on X11 will  also start to exclude the next

> generation of linux UI systems which are not going to be X11 (even

> though they are re-using a lot of the internal code and can host X11

> windows). once you've seen them in action, i think that even you will

> be a believer :) I'm talking primarily about Wayland

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> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayland_%28display_server_protocol%29

It also excludes framebuffer based toolkits (which Gtk can be), which is

a good solution for embedded stuff, or what we call "hardware" here in

music land... not to mention smart phones / tablets / etc, which at this

point is hilariously short-sighted to exclude at the outset.
> it also excludes GL based systems, which to be perfectly honest appear

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> to be have been a MUCH better starting point if you writing a GUI at

> any point in the last 12 years than X. i deeply regret not basing

> ardour on a toolkit that sat on top of GL rather than X11 - GL is more

> portable, and has lots of nice features that don't show up in a lot of

> programs but are real nonetheless.

Yep.. boy do I wish I just did everything in GL...
-dr
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