Re: Patch for importing Xlib Pixmaps into Gdk Pixmaps

[Kenneth Albanowski <kjahds kjahds com>]

On Fri, 30 Oct 1998, Miguel de Icaza wrote:

> 
> > X not available?  Does this mean that I should be worrying about
> > non-unix portability when writing gtk/gdk applications?
> 
> I would suggest just to think that X might not be available, try to
> minimize your X dependencies or issolate them nicely.

Exactly. Gtk is extremely well isolated (except for some color management
leaking through), and Gdk is mildly isolated. Hopefully it'll get better
as the Win32 stuff goes further along. 

> Think Linux handheld computers running with only a frame buffer and a
> basic windowing library.  

Wow. Even _I_ hadn't thought of that one yet. :-)

-- 
Kenneth Albanowski (kjahds@kjahds.com, CIS: 70705,126)