Am 17.05.2010 23:43, schrieb Anthony Liguori: > On 05/17/2010 04:35 PM, malc wrote: >> There's one thing that SDL does marvelously well - it's just one fairly >> small and self contained library that doesn't unleash dependency hell on >> the user. >> >>> The fact that we have cocoa support in the tree is basically an admission of >>> failure with SDL. >>> >> I don't think so, the way i see it: someone had an itch (i.e. an >> application that does not integrate well with his windowing environment) >> and he scratched it. >> > > SDL doesn't integrate well into a modern Gnome desktop either. I don't > see why we have Cocoa and not Gtk. If the answer is, someone needs to > send patches, expect patches soon :-)
So with this argument, we'll not only get a GTK backend, but Qt and Windows backends, too? But then you can't reasonably say any more that DirectFB would be too much additional code to maintain. Kevin
