simple display (from: GUI library for D)

[Nick Sabalausky]

"teo" <teo.ubuntu at yahoo.com> wrote in message 
news:io00gq$5rc$1 at digitalmars.com...
> On Fri, 08 Apr 2011 20:26:07 +0000, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
>
>> We discussed this first in the GUI library thread, but since it
>> meandered so much, I decided to split off into a new subject. Much of
>> what I say here will be old to anyone who saw the previous thread.
>> There's some new stuff nearer to the bottom though.
>>
>> I, with input from others, have started writing a little module for
>> simple uses of a display. You can write to a bitmap, display it to a
>> window, and handle events all in an easy way. The basics are cross
>> platform, but you can use native function calls too.
>>
>> http://arsdnet.net/dcode/simpledisplay.d
>>
>
> I admit I didn't read the whole thread...
>
> I just wanted to point out the following:
> - XCB (http://xcb.freedesktop.org/) - aims to replace Xlib
> - Wayland (http://wayland.freedesktop.org/) - aims to replace the X server
>
> A quick look at the source code shows that you are targeting the X
> server, which might not be the best idea.
>
> Please ignore my post, if the above is well known and has already been
> discussed.

Even the Wayland site says that it's not going to replace X server anytime 
soon and that they're going to co-exist for the forseeable future. Don't 
know anything about XCB though.