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| author | David Robillard <d@drobilla.net> | 2025-01-18 15:59:47 -0500 |
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| committer | David Robillard <d@drobilla.net> | 2025-01-19 08:59:02 -0500 |
| commit | 9f210aa7385aa2cb9027150bcb104030cc8f8f27 (patch) | |
| tree | 851164430a6d42dfdfb18b55a960d1b0772e8017 | |
| parent | 95b51d5a963af5bd8e75d20828b954422f1c06ad (diff) | |
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Update README to reflect the current intent of the library
The old writing here put a heavy emphasis on Gtk in Qt and vica-versa, a
situation which is discouraged at best. So, rewrite it to be about loading UIs
that use a "native" windowing API.
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@@ -1,16 +1,14 @@ -<!-- Copyright 2011-2019 David Robillard <d@drobilla.net> --> +<!-- Copyright 2011-2025 David Robillard <d@drobilla.net> --> <!-- SPDX-License-Identifier: ISC --> Suil ==== -Suil is a library for loading and wrapping LV2 plugin UIs. -For more information, see <http://drobilla.net/software/suil>. +Suil is a library for loading and wrapping LV2 plugin UIs. It provides +wrappers that allow Gtk and Qt hosts to load, and potentially embed, plugin +GUIs that use the "native" windowing API (Coca, WIN32, or X11). -With Suil, a host written in one supported toolkit can embed a plugin UI -written in a different supported toolkit. Suil insulates hosts from toolkit -libraries used by plugin UIs. For example, a Gtk host can embed a Qt UI -without linking against Qt at compile time. +For more information, see <http://drobilla.net/software/suil>. -- David Robillard <d@drobilla.net> |