From: Conrad Schneiker Date: 2001-10-16T15:05:33+09:00 Subject: [ruby-talk:22596] Re: Learn Ruby/Tk or Ruby/GTK? Hi, "Christopher Sawtell" wrote: > On Mon, 15 Oct 2001 06:03, you wrote: > > --- dAHen wrote: > > > And my first question is still there... > > > Do you recommend Tk or GTK? > > > > Between those two, I think you can decide based on whether > > you like (or hate) two aspects of Tk: 1) the api, and 2) > > the look-and-feel of the apps themselves. > [ ... ] > Another possibility you might like to consider is the FOX <--> Ruby kit. > The author, who actually reads and answers e-mail, claims it is not really > ready for the prime time yet, but so far it works for me. There was a good talk at the 2001 Ruby Conference about FOX. FOX reportedly has a better (more flexible and powerful) way of dealing with control issues compared to either Tk or GTK. Hopefully the slides from the talk will be posted somewhere (if they aren't already). As for GTK, here is a bit of indirect news about the long-awaited 2.0 version that was designed for much better Win32 support: (http://slashdot.org/articles/01/10/16/0014244.shtml) refers to: (http://www.linuxgram.com/article.pl?sid=01/10/11/1747240§ion=187) ==== begin quote ==== Gnome Misses Solaris 9 Bus Thursday, October 11th, 2001 by G2News Sun has got a feature-incomplete beta of Solaris 9 available for download through the company's early access program, but it seems the promised open-source Gnome 2.0 won't be the thing's default because, as we've pointed out before, the Gnome widgetry won't be ready when Solaris 9 ships for real in the first half of next year. Sun will cleave to its traditional Solaris Common Desktop Environment for the time being. Gnome's leader Miguel de Icaza is currently having a flirtation with Microsoft's C# technologies and is producing a Linux version of the stuff under an open source initiative called the Mono Project. Solaris 9, at least in its Intel incarnation, is supposed to be able to run Linux apps. Sun has been putting Linux APIs in the OS so Linux apps can be ported to Sparc. ==== end quote ==== Conrad