[Development] Is Xlib a hard requirement for Qt5 xcb?

[Rutledge Shawn]

On 30 Jul 2013, at 1:21 PM, Jørgen Lind wrote:

> From what I can remember, the xlib dependency was introduced into the
> xcb backend because glx requires it, as it needs the xlib display.
> Since most people want to use glx then it has become a defacto
> dependency. Then it would seem that porting old functionality to the
> xcb backend has been simplified by having the xlib dependency.

If it's only glx, then maybe the goal should be that xlib shouldn't be necessary when using EGL, or no OpenGL at all (in which case you could still have widgets anyway), right?