13 Oct
2008
13 Oct
'08
10:04 a.m.
[...coding in
Xlib...wheel reinvention...]
It's already been done, and now there are standard
wheels (GTK, QT,
etc.). Using an existing system allows your application to
function well,
and allows you to think about more important things than "Gee, this
thing would look better if I moved it 3 pixels to the left and
changed the color a bit. Oh well, I'll have edit the code some more
because I didn't make a facility to do that."
Where do you get this delusion that using Xlib directly means a lack of
configurability? Or constant macdinking?
Then, you have the disadvantage (some would say
advantage, but I'd
say that's misguided) of having your app look and behave completely
different from everything else the end user runs.
You mean, like, if you use one toolkit and most of the stuff the user
runs uses a different one?
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