From: Conrad Schneiker <schneiker@...>
Date: 2001-08-16T18:13:47+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:19872] Re: The GUI poll is in, and the results are surprising

"Ned Konz" <ned@bike-nomad.com> wrote:

> > It's nice to see this comparison and it has me leaning toward GTK
> > now (whereas I was leaning toward FOX).
>
> Another possible reason to go to GTK might be to use Glade, which is a
nice
> GUI generator tool. There's information on Ruby/LibGlade  at
> http://home.pacifier.com/~edmunds/ruby_files/
>
> I'm sure that there is nothing intrinsically keeping Win32 Gtk from
working.

I'm not sure about the near term, but I think for the medium term, GTK may
be the best option for the following reasons.

From what I read (and posted here somewhere) months ago, the next major
version of GTK is supposed to be developed with the aim of providing much
easier/better porting/support for the Windows and Mac platforms.  IIRC, some
version of it was supposed to be available by the end of this year. (Haven't
seen any more recent news; maybe the recently announced Mono effort will
cause delays by diverting resources.)

Also, IIRC, Sun is making GTK (GNOME) their new GUI/Desktop standard, and I
think HP may have been making similar plans. AFAIK, the major Linux distros
include GTK.

(And FWIW, it looks like Perl/GTK has risen from the dead and seems to be
making a strong comeback and is accumulating some nice documentation.)

In considering such issues, I am always looking towards what the forthcoming
great flood of new Ruby users will find (on the average) most convenient and
most familiar and easiest to sell to their coworkers or managers, relative
to the most feasible options that we presently have available.

Conrad