[Haskell] Haskell Xlib bindings
Simon Marlow
simonmarhaskell at gmail.com
Wed Feb 14 05:00:07 EST 2007
Lennart Kolmodin wrote:
> Rob Hoelz wrote:
>> Simon Marlow <simonmarhaskell at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I think you misinterpreted me slightly: I didn't mean to ask "why XCB
>>> when we have an Xlib binding?", I'm asking "why do we need either?".
>>> Who is going to use it? Is someone planning to write a widget set in
>>> Haskell?
>>>
>>
>> I think having an Xlib module is important; there's low-level stuff you
>> might need to do in Xlib that isn't practical to do using GTK/Qt. Or
>> you might want to build a light-weight application. Etc, etc.
>>
>
> Or, rather, you want to write a window manager. This is already work in
> progress by sjanssen.
Those answer my question, thanks!
SImon
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