From: ptkwt@...1.aracnet.com (Phil Tomson)
Date: 2002-01-22T08:10:53+09:00
Subject: Re: RANT: Ruby GUI API

In article <02012123130300.00935@caissa.penguin>, cix  <mcix@gmx.net> 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?
>
It seems I recall that we had a 
vote on this on RubyGarden just a few months back.  If I recall correctly 
that's what led to including Fox (in addition to TK) in the standard 
Ruby distribution.

Phil