From: Sean Russell <ser@...>
Date: 2002-02-18T12:06:01+09:00
Subject: Re: The GUI Returns

Kero van Gelder wrote:

> Slow is relative. I am implementing something I think I will call
> Ruby-Wise (WIdget SEt), which takes basic elements from X, but builds all
> fancy stuff from Ruby. For flexibility and for a small footprint.
> And for an easy API.

This sounds interesting.

Out of curiosity, why did you choose not to base it on FLTK?  The projects 
sound similar.  Although FLTK doesn't provide any abstract widgets like 
Ruby-Wise, you can build widgets in Ruby with FLTK.  I'm not particularly 
an advocate of FLTK, but it sounds like you could (have?) saved some time 
basing Ruby-Wise on it.

> What is a native look and feel for X? Athena? Motif? Gtk?

Whichever the user wants, baby. :-)  That's the idea, anyway.  I'd like Qt 
because I'm a KDE user, but the best system would also blend well with 
Gnome, and therefore use Gtk.

> It sounds like you must strike a balance between extreme 1) (portability)
> and extreme 2) (speed), where SWT seems to have such a good balance.
> I hope I can give Ruby-Wise a similar balance.

Are you going to post to the RAA when you release your first version?  
Announce it here?

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