Sujet : Re: Librecad on RasPiOS
De : bowman (at) *nospam* montana.com (rbowman)
Groupes : comp.sys.raspberry-piDate : 26. Jun 2026, 18:51:06
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On Fri, 26 Jun 2026 10:05:14 +0100, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
I think there is a lot of 'I want do it this way and Wayland cant'
Without the concomitant 'why on earth are you doing it that way?' and
'because that's the only way you can in X windows'.
Technical debt. The Motif GUIs I worked with went back to the '90s and had
been getting the job done for 30 years or so. We'd looked at moving to a
more 'modern' widget toolkit but it would have meant a complete rewrite,
with no real improvement in functionality or even loss of some features.
In that case the front end was replaced with a browser based Angular app.
It wasn't always easy to make it work 'the same'. As you know, users are
very big on 'the same'.
The difference was it was our choice not something forced by distros
saying they would only support Wayland and not X11. Personally, I don't
care since I no longer have to work on the GUIs but I can see why KiCad,
Xfce, or other projects with a long history on X11 get upset by seemingly
arbitrary Wayland decisions.
The fortunate are those that used Gtk, Qt, or other tool kits that sat on
X11 but provided a level of abstraction. The headaches get passed to the
Qt and Gtk developers.
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