From: Markus Jais <info@...>
Date: 2002-01-22T07:30:49+09:00
Subject: Re: RANT: Ruby GUI API

cix wrote:

> 
>> I think the standard GUI for Ruby should have the following
>> characteristics
>>
>> - portable between Unix (include Linux and Mac OS X) and Windows
>> - a rich widget library including suport for Internatiolization
>> - not to much extra stuff  like socket classes, threads
>>    (Ruby already supports this)
>> - Fast (if it is as slowly as Swing in Linux it will not be used very
>> much - open source (this is in my opinion a must - I would never use it
>> if it
>>    would be closed source)
>>
>> maybe the upcoming Gtk 2.0 would be worth considering because AFAIK it
>> supports all the stuff I mentioned above.
>>
>> just my thoughts
>>
>> markus
> I do agree on each point.
> Is this the right place for a vote on this issue? Just to know what the
> folks want?
> 
> cix


maybe this would be a good choice for another poll on rubygarden.org??
any thoughts on this??
I definitely do not want to start a religious war on GUI tookkits.
some might also argue, that open source is always about choice and there is 
no need for a standard tookit, as there is no standard scripting language 
on Linux. 

markus