Portable GUI levels (was: Re: [GUI] Re: Gtk and Object I/O)

Axel Simon A.Simon@ukc.ac.uk
Sat, 25 Jan 2003 16:08:07 +0000


On Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 03:01:50PM +0100, Nick Name wrote:
> I reply not to insist on an idea which is surely not mine, but just
> would like to hear comments on it. Why don't we choose a document model
> for the interface, like adobe did with DPS and apple with quartz? This
> has many advantages instead of a C library, as I said before, and can be
> modeled with a client-server interface wich would avoid foreign-language
> interoperability problem, allowing one to implement the backend even in
> QT.
For me this sounds like inventing another X protocol. This would be just 
beyond our (time) resources and acutal needs.

Axel.