The Wayland-based desktop is replacing X11 on more and more Linux distros. But like many applications, JDK is still X11-based. OpenJDK Project Wakefield is a...
  • Troy@lemmy.ca
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    3 months ago

    I may have been born under a rock, but does Qt have java capabilities? Wonder why GTK is listed but not Qt. Unless I’m like two decades out of the loop, which is possible :)

    • sik0fewl@lemmy.ca
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      3 months ago

      I think they were just stating why they were considering it as an option - or maybe why they really weren’t. I think the same argument applies for any UI toolkit - it makes sense for them to just use libwayland instead.

      • Troy@lemmy.ca
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        3 months ago

        Building a toolkit from first principles is fun, I’ll admit.

        I toyed with using libxcb and ctypes to make a pure python GUI toolkit once. Got as far as rendering on a screen and and event loop. Then got bored when I realized how much work it was going to be. I suppose someone could do the same with libwayland :)

        • sik0fewl@lemmy.ca
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          3 months ago

          Haha. I’m sure the OpenJDK guys could use some help if you want to try it again. They already have AWT, so all that’s really needed is the rendering part… I’m sure it’ll be super easy!

          • Troy@lemmy.ca
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            3 months ago

            Oh hell no. I can’t stand java paradigms haha. Only ever had to write one production java program and that was enough. Wish them luck though – the rising tide floats all boats and such, particularly in open source :)

    • deathmetal27@lemmy.worldOP
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      3 months ago

      They were using GTK’s Wayland implementation as a reference, I think that is why. Though a Swing application running on Wayland wouldn’t really care about the underlying DE anyway.