I want to make a simplistic C++ gui library as my first 'big' project.

I was originally planning to learn the X server's api for this and making up class layers over it, but decided against it because of all the hype about Wayland replacing it in a few years.
But after looking around for a while,I couldn't find much information about its roots.
(The best I found was a faq answer:
What is the drawing api ? ...Whatever you want it to be.)
My question is that what exactly does it mean ?
Do I get access to some video memory...framebuffer...to do as I wish ? ..or would I have to resort to using routines provided by the graphics card driver ?

(Lol..You can see my level of confusion on this topic.)

http://www.x.org/wiki/Documentation


http://xcb.freedesktop.org/tutorial/


google for "linux x programming"

I hope this will help ..waiting for you reply

is the project to MAKE a GUI ?
if not and you only need to use one

then fedora has a bunch of tools in the base repos

gnome
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has GTK & Glade

KDE
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has QT Develop & QT4 Designer

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Well, my post was to to avoid the X server.

No.. this is to make a (shared) library to give a simple interface for GUI programming... (I know Qt and can easily see that *a lot* of people would appreciate a library with a simpler design (sacrificing some flexibility) )

Maybe This Phoronix article from November 2010 helps.

Both, a framebuffer device, and OpenGL ES 2.0 acceleration. See the OpenGL ES 2.0 Reference card (PDF!) for an overview of the facilities it provides.