From: "Albert L. Wagner" <alwagner@...>
Date: 2002-01-22T23:44:56+09:00
Subject: Re: RANT: Ruby GUI API

Hello, Pieter.
This reply to your post is actually intended for the thread and
your post was just a convenient place to hang it.

Everyone here keeps making reference to "native" widgets.  They
appear to use the word as if the widgets were hard wired.  When
in fact "native" means simply "supplied by the OS authors".  When
the OS author is someone like MS, then it's understandable that
this conotation would attach, because MS discourages competition.
But the word is meaningless when applied to Linux. X is a very
low level API that can be used to implement a plethora of
"native" widgets.  Tk, Fox, Qt, GTK, etc. are ALL native widgets
on Linux.