From: Martin DeMello <martindemello@...>
Date: 2009-05-16T03:21:11+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby based linux

On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 11:39 PM, Chad Perrin <perrin@apotheon.com> wrote:
>> 3. I want to use allot of shoes stuff, or at least have it available.
>> Since shoes is gtk based I was going to go with Gnome or Xfce desktop
>> enviroment..opinions?
>
> I don't see why developing with GTK in mind necessitates either GNOME or
> its little brother.  Some of use actively dislike GNOME.

Your apps integrate well into the standard desktop if they share its
toolkit. That said, I use fluxbox and run a lot of gtk apps, so it
doesn't really matter :)

> Also . . . while Shoes and GTK depend on some common stuff, I'm not sure
> I'd call Shoes "GTK-based".  Is Shoes more significantly tied to GTK than
> I thought?

It uses gtk for its underlying toolkit under linux

$ ls /opt/shoes/shoes/native
cocoa.h  cocoa.m  gtk.c  gtk.o  windows.c

martin