From: Albert Wagner <alwagner@...>
Date: 2001-10-28T05:05:52+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:23645] Re: Cross-platform GUI wrapper (for Python)

On Saturday 27 October 2001 11:02 am, you wrote:
> --- Albert Wagner <alwagner@tcac.net> wrote:
> > On Friday 26 October 2001 08:03 pm, you wrote:
> > > project named "anygui":
> >
> > Ah, but here's the rub:  just what is a "native" widget
> > set for Linux?
> > XForms?  Tk?  GTK?  Qt?  FLTK?  Motif?  or what?
>
> The whole point is to support any or all of them. GTK is
> already in the works, and I think Qt is as well. Someone
> plans to do ncurses, and I'm sure they'd love for people to
> do bindings to the others. You could even write bindings
> directly to Xlib, if you wanted to.

Assuming it was to EVERY  GUI on Linux, it sounds like a real maintenance 
nightmare to me.  At any rate, the point I was making is that the word 
"native" is tossed about as if there was just one for each OS.  The nearest 
thing to "native" on Linux is raw X.

>
> Kevin
>
>
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