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Lightweight Tox client
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Use XCB instead of XLIB #87

Open nopjmp opened 10 years ago

nopjmp commented 10 years ago

XCB is the modern library to use to communicate with the X server. It can combine multi api calls and talks the way X wants you to talk to it. However, this acts kinda like a network connection where you send the API requests then you have to receive the API requests.

This is just a thought. I may work on a port to XCB in the future when I get time to re-read the XCB documentation.

notsecure commented 10 years ago

uTox depends on some Xlib functions that are not available using XCB directly, but from what I understand you can use both XCB and Xlib calls. I don't think it is necessary but feel free to replace Xlib functionality with equivalent XCB functionality when it is better.

GrayHatter commented 9 years ago

@irungentoo do you know of any of the Xlib calls that don't exist in xcb?

benwaffle commented 8 years ago

There is little to no benefit to switching to xcb. Xlib is not a bottleneck, so it's not worth the effort.

Besides, Xlib is implemented using xcb internally