From: Mathieu Bouchard <matju@...>
Date: 2001-10-28T12:46:25+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:23663] Re: GUI / was [ANN] RubyInRubyParser 0.1-pre-alpha


On Fri, 26 Oct 2001, Eli Green wrote:
> It just seems like a lot of unnecessary overhead. SDL works under X,
> and is definitely smaller than an entire X server (I would imagine).

an issue with SDL is that it does not provide you with anything for
interprocess communication, so even cut+paste won't work (as I understand
it).

On Fri, 26 Oct 2001, Robert Feldt wrote:
> I'd like to note a thing that IMHO hampers some projects that does
> this: If it looks very different to what people are used to it will
> feel awkward even if it may be better. It must be very much better to
> overcome the awkwardness of being different. This is from my
> impressions with Squeak. YMMV.

Well, if there's a problem with Squeak, it's the bad image it gives to
flexible GUIs. Squeak is not very refined or simplified; you have several
look-n-feels at once in different parts of the toolkit, and some of them
are quite extravagant. What you can do with it is incredible but it gives
the impression that a flexible GUI somehow *has* to feel awkward.

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