[Help-smalltalk] gst, xlib and stix

[Michael Lucas-Smith]

> > However, I don't see good reasons to write yet another GUI
> > and widget toolkit entirely in Smalltalk.
>
> Yes, quite so.  It was instead low level X things that had prompted
> me.  Various window managers are a bit dodgy in various areas, like
> event handling during drags, and I got the urge to try something
> minimal myself.  C is a bit too much like hard work for such things,
> if any sort of configurability is going to exist, hence nosing around
> gst (and guile-xlib and elk), despite not really being fluent in
> smalltalk (or scheme).
I have a friend called Nigel who's also interested in trying to do 
something like that. Mainly for the same reasons.

Michael