Re: porting Xlib/Motif apps to GTK+

[Roger Davis <rbd soest hawaii edu>]

Hi John, thanks for your comments!

> As you say, gdk_ is a thin layer over the X11 drawing system, so
> converting that is pretty easy. Gdk has quite a few helpers too, eg.
> stuff for rendering a 24-bit image to whatever visual the server has,
> so you can save some code there. It shouldn't be a huge effort to
> port.

Too bad all of the GDK Xlib wrapper functions appear to be completely 
removed from GTK 3, it would have been a much easier port! Oh well.

Roger