Re: [gtk-list] Re: What ports of gdk/gtk? (GGI anybody?)

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On 23 Feb 1999, Alan Shutko wrote:

> What  Scott meant was that gdk and gtk depend on a windowing system,
> which is more than a framebuffer.  It needs something to act as a
> window manager, for example, and it uses windows to handle input to
> specific widgets.
> 
> It doesn't seem, to me, that GGI provides any sort of windowing
> system, just a nice way to access the screen (upon which you could put
> windowing systems like X).  So, if you wanted to port gdk directly to
> libggi, you'd have to incorporate a whole windowing system into gdk.
> That would suck.
> 
> Does anyone know more about GGI and can tell us if it provides the
> kinds of things gdk needs?

No, it doesn't. However, there is an X server (I'm not sure if it's
related to XFree86 or nto) that runs over GGI.

Cody