From: Andy Elvey <andy.elvey@...>
Date: 2001-08-15T16:11:05+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:19760] Re: The GUI poll is in, and the results are surprising


Dave Thomas <Dave@PragmaticProgrammer.com> wrote in message
news:m2zo91kiz5.fsf@zip.local.thomases.com...
>
> I let this poll run for a while, just to see if the early results were
> anomalous.  They weren't.  The results stayed consistent (and
> surprising) for the duration of the poll:
>
>      I prefer writing Ruby GUIs using:
>
>           fox        29.01 % (76)
>           gtk        26.72 % (70)
>           a pencil   19.08 % (50)
>           tk         11.83 % (31)
>           qt         12.60 % (33)
>           hybris      0.76 % (2)
>
>      Total votes: 262
>
> Fox, the new kid on the block, consistently held a narrow lead over
> GTK.  Surprisingly, Tk never really made a showing, despite being
> bundled with Ruby on both Unix and in the Installshield Windows
> distribution.
>
  Mmm ....  I'm not surprised that Tk is an "also-ran" here.  I've always
found it to be one of the ugliest toolkits around (in spite of "ease of
use" ) , and so I'm kinda depressed that Ruby (and Python , for that matter)
use Tk/Tkinter as their standard GUI toolkit .... :-/