From: "richard.j.dale@..." <richard.j.dale@...>
Date: 2007-11-22T00:00:01+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby kiosk client suggestions.

On Nov 20, 6:28 pm, Kyle Hall <kyle.m.h...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello all,
>    I'm writing an Open Source Internet-Cafe style kiosk system for
> public libraries in Ruby. I'm trying to find a gui toolkit that will fit
> my needs, and hours of googling have given me little incite. Here is
> what it needs to do.
>
> 1) Display a login screen for username/password. This screen needs to
> take over the entire desktop, and not allow task switching or anything
> of the like.
>
> 2) A small window or menu applet to let users know how much time they
> have left.
>
> 3) Small popup alerts when time is getting low.
>
> 4) This program needs to run on Linux/KDE and Windows.
>
> Part 1 is what I can't figure out. At first, I was going to use Tk, but
> I can't find a way to do it in Tk. Then I was going to useQt, but I've
> found I will have many problems getting a ruby/qtapplication to run on
> windows. Now I'm thinking of using Ruby/GTK2.
Jan Pilz has created a Windows gem for QtRuby 1.4.9 with everything
you to just install and run, including the Qt libraries themselves.

You can download it from the QtRuby/Korundum RubyForge site:

http://rubyforge.org/projects/korundum/

You could certainly implement your requirements above quite easily in
QtRuby.

-- Richard