[linux-audio-dev] PTAF link and comments

[Paul Davis]

>>It sure does for every application that proposes a plugin system. I have
>>been programing maya plugins profesionally and having the ability to use any
>>toolkit I want for my GUI certainely counts. Same goes for photoshop
>>plugins, FCP plugins, etc... I know the sort answer to this question from
>>unix people is always "you can't do this", period. Browser plugins have the
>>same problem too, in fact the lack of flexibility prevented people from
>>doing it but I'm pretty sure they would have done it a lot more if it was
>>available.
>
>the point here is that not that there is any problem with XWindow. if
>you are willing to use Xlib directly, you can do all this stuff with
>no problems at all. the problems all arise from toolkits being too
>egocentric and thinking that they will inevitably control the event
>loop. if you cut toolkits out of the picture, and scribble on XWindows
>and XDrawables using XDraw* functions and stuff like that, the
>problems all go away. the problem is, nobody really wants to work at
>that level, it seems.

and to put this a different way, you are also fine if you use a
"drawing kit" (such as OpenGL). these don't have event loops per se -
they just provide ways to draw things on an XDrawable.

--p