On Fri, 2011-03-04 at 22:56 +0000, Pedro Alves wrote:
> On Friday 04 March 2011 22:00:47, Paul Davis wrote:
>
> > but why? real hosts are not written with Xlib, they are written with
> > Qt, or GTK or ...
>
> Of course.
>
> > embedding another Gtk widget into a Gtk window is a LOT easier
> > than embedding an X window ID, and in fact is the whole reason why
> > libsuil exists.
>
> I was implying always Xembed'ding when host and plugin are
> both X11 based, with the ugliness all tucked away in the
> library.
That is the idea.
> But it seems I can infer then that one of the
> design choices of libsuil is to allow trusting plugins
> into the address space party.
Not really. As you say, all the ugliness is tucked away. The magic black
box library can do out of process if it wants.
-dr
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