Re: glib and Xlib

[Tomas Carnecky <tom dbservice com>]

jaafar EL GONNOUNI wrote:
> Hello;
>
> What is *glib *adding that the GTK + compared to *Xlib *?
>
> All what is possible with glib with Xlib is feasible, then why create a new
> library.

From http://library.gnome.org/devel/glib/stable/glib.html :

GLib is a general-purpose utility library, which provides many useful 
data types, macros, type conversions, string utilities, file utilities, 
a main loop abstraction, and so on. It works on many UNIX-like 
platforms, Windows, OS/2 and BeOS. GLib is released under the GNU 
Library General Public License (GNU LGPL).


From http://tronche.com/gui/x/xlib/introduction/ :

The X Window System is a network-transparent window system that was 
designed at MIT. X display servers run on computers with either 
monochrome or color bitmap display hardware. The server distributes user 
input to and accepts output requests from various client programs 
located either on the same machine or elsewhere in the network. Xlib is 
a C subroutine library that application programs (clients) use to 
interface with the window system by means of a stream connection. 
Although a client usually runs on the same machine as the X server it is 
talking to, this need not be the case.


I hope you can see the difference.

tom