From: ptkwt@...1.aracnet.com (Phil Tomson)
Date: 2002-02-17T19:46:06+09:00
Subject: Re: The GUI Returns

In article <004001c1b77a$03fa1a20$6401a8c0@athion>,
Horacio Lopez <vruz@ruby-es.org> wrote:
>Hello all,
>
><RANT mood="moderate">
>I had a look at a Python project at
>http://anygui.sourceforge.net/
>
>Quoting them:
>"The purpose of the Anygui project is to create an easy-to-use, simple, and
>generic module for making graphical user interfaces in Python. Its main
>feature is that it works transparently with many different GUI packages on
>most platforms. "
>
>
>This sounds very close to a rant we had some weeks ago about what way we
>should go if we wanted a coherent standard GUI API that doesn't suck.
>I am not sure yet if they will achieve their goals, but it's something to
>have an eye on, if they do it with Python, we can do it with Ruby too.
>
>I am aware of the Ruby-based Locana project,  (http://www.locana.org) but it
>looks to me like people didn't show much interest on it.
>(maybe I am wrong, but I haven't seen many posts on Locana in ruby-talk)
>

I think Locana has a lot of potential and it seems to be kind of similar 
to AnyGui.  It probalby won't be good for everything - it'll probably 
suffer from the 'least common denominator' problem, but for simple GUIs it 
sounds like a good project.


Phil