[Desktop_architects] [Announce] "Common Desktop Infrastructure" 0.1.0 is released

[Kay Ramme]

Hi Tiago,

Tiago Vignatti wrote:
> 
> One major change happened not so long ago (I think 1.0 version was 
> released in 2007) was the migration from Xlib to a new low-level 
> implementation of the X protocol in C, the XCB [0] which provides a 
> foundation for toolkits to build upon. Probably none of the biggest 
> toolkits use XCB.

The XCB stuff is actually an interesting read ... especially the 
comments regarding synchronous reads in xlib and how to avoid that. 
Anybody ever started Firefox or OOo over a slow connection, redirecting 
to a local x-server likely knows how all these latencies sum up ;-)

> 

             Kay


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