From: Dave Thomas <Dave@...>
Date: 2001-02-24T03:22:44+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:11399] Re: trial balloon: Ruby desktop?

Michael Neumann <neumann@s-direktnet.de> writes:

> On Sat, Feb 24, 2001 at 01:18:44AM +0900, Jon Aseltine wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I have been thinking about something for some time now, and I wanted to
> > get some feedback from the list. Would it be feasible/possible/wise to
> > craft a desktop environment using Ruby as its backbone? I am quite
> > unhappy with the state of both GNOME and KDE, and I find the idea of a
> > Ruby desktop exciting. Some parts need to be fast (some window manager
> > stuff, e.g.), but other things, including most application logic, could
> > be in pure Ruby, I think.
> 
> Great idea. 
> IIRC, Andy/Dave worked on a window manager written in Ruby. Am I right?

We had a window manager that used components written in Ruby, mostly
for decoration.

Matju is busy writing an interface to XLib, so it will be easier to 
write a lot more of the window manager in Ruby soon.


Dave