From: "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <znmeb@...>
Date: 2006-09-26T23:07:30+09:00
Subject: Re: GUI programming for WinXP/Linux/OSX?

Paul Lutus wrote:
> Roman Hausner wrote:
> 
> / ...
> 
>> If at all possible, I would prefer to do it all in Ruby though.
> 
> Recently I have been writing some apps using Ruby and the Qt library. The Qt
> library is available under the GPL for Linux, Windows and OS X. I much
> prefer the Qt library over Tk -- IMHO it is better-looking and has more
> useful components.
> 
> I develop under Linux, where there is a Qt GUI designer application called
> "Qt Designer" (the executable is named "designer"), which is pretty good.

IIRC QTDesigner runs on all platforms where QT itself runs, so you don't 
need a Linux development platform.

I think you need QT4 if you want open source on Windows, though.