From: SonOfLilit <sonoflilit@...>
Date: 2007-03-15T18:11:26+09:00
Subject: Re: Google Summer of Code -- Get Ready for the Proposal Wind

Indeed.

Except that many tried and failed. Me included.

I remember that in my research I found that the RIDE people dabbled in
it as a sister project (IIRC).

You can have a look there.


Unfortunately, GUI APIs are hard to get right. Very hard. I've done a
GUI toolkit for myself in uby lately (some exploratory programming,
prototyping a few ideas of mine) and I've spent more time thinking up
the API than coding.


And this was a throw-away prototype.

Which only I would ever use.


In the end I wanted to add a critical feature that was next on the
milestone list and found that I made such a fatal mistake in the API
that re-coding everything would be almost as easy as fixing everything
(I started with squares only, thinking that it'd be simple to modify
it to use other shapes, but used that assumption everywhere in the
code. I knew that fixing it everywhere would result in much more bugs
than good).

It's hard.


But you can try, and I'll look forward to hearing the results.


Aur

On 3/15/07, Nando Sanchez <rubynando@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I'm new to Ruby and I've been researching to create a desktop app, and
> what I've found so far is that there are many GUIs but each of them has
> it's own way of doing things. I read some thread proposing a unified
> "ruby-like" framework for GUI development, where the developer could
> swap easily the GUI he wants to use (GTK, FOX, QT...) without changing
> the application. This could be a good project and it will foster the
> creation of more ruby desktop apps. Who knows, may be someone could
> develop a rails-like stuff for desktop apps.
>
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