From: Laurent Sansonetti <laurent.sansonetti@...>
Date: 2004-08-06T18:23:43+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby-Gtk+ QuestionsSubject:

On Fri, 6 Aug 2004 09:42:22 +0900, Paul van Tilburg <paul@luon.net> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 06, 2004 at 09:11:27AM +0900, Bill Atkins wrote:
> > [...] I commit my next project to Gtk, I wanted to see if
> > anyone on this newsgroup could offer their opinion on Gtk.  How well
> > does it work?  Is there anything exceptionally cool about it?
> 
> For me it works very well.. the Ruby/GNOME2 Project is progressing
> nicely, have a look at:
> http://ruby-gnome2.sourceforge.jp/
> 
> > Also, I had a few more objective questions:
> >
> > 1. Is it possible to change the theme for a single Gtk application?
> > If not, is there any way to customize an application's appearance
> > (fonts, colors, etc) without resorting to a theme?
> 
> Theming is a GTK native specific thing.
> 

Maybe the following link can help you:

http://www.rixsoft.com/gimpwin/gtk-themes.html

It should be easy to ship a theme with your application, and force it
to use that theme instead of the default one.

> > 2. What problems does Gtk have on Win32?  I hear over and over again
> > that Gtk+ isn't an option because it's buggy on Win32, but in my
> > (limited) experience, it seemed to run very well.  What problems
> > should I expect?
> 
> I have GTK-only apps working on win32. Ruby 1.8, GTK runtime and
> ruby-gtk2 for win32 is required and it works. See also:
> http://ruby-gnome2.sourceforge.jp/hiki.cgi?Install+Guide+for+Windows
> 

Ruby/GTK apps work fine under win32.  Unfortunately, all the C
libraries covered by the Ruby-GNOME2 project are not yet officially
ported to win32 (AFAIK GConf, Libgnomeui, etc...).  But GTK, Libglade
(to name a few) should work without any problem.

--
Laurent