Rust-XCB is a set of bindings and wrappers for XCB. It uses the XML protocol descriptions from XCB to generate the bindings and the wrappers.
Rust-XCB is only intended as an interface to XCB, so provides nothing above and beyond that.
The bindings are generated from the r_client.py script with help from the xcbgen library (also
from XCB). The bindings are inside the ll module, which also contains the hand-written bindings
to the core library. However, all of the bindings are still in the repository, so running it is not
necessary.
NB: As of this writing, this section isn't true, it still needs to be done
The wrappers are generated from the same files, and provide a safe and more convenient wrapper over the low-level bindings by having automatic destructors for returned data, trait implementations for object "types" and other safe helpers.
The issues tracker has more details, but the high-level things that need to be done are:
- Generate Intuitive wrappers. (#1)
- Get unions generating properly. (#2)
- Write Tests. (#3)
- Clean up r_client.py (#4)