From: Marc Heiler Date: 2010-01-11T18:42:19+09:00 Subject: Re: The Ruby GUI debacle > If anyone knows an IDE where I can use drag&drop to create GUI appls > in Ruby/Jruby/IronRuby/AnyRuby, please let me know. I am willing to > purchase a commercial package, if available. In a way the situation is a bit difficult for GUI apps in the year 2010. The WWW really made this kind of trivial in an online-fashion. Want to change colours of your formular or borders? Use a bit CSS. Need calback actions? A bit Javascript. And so on. With the various GUIs, they sometimes use completely different mindsets. Personally I use ruby-gnome. I am quite happy with it. It has a great wiki. Unfortunately, the ruby-gnome guys lack one or two more maintainers who can spend some time every now and then on it. My hope is that all the different GUIs learn from the WWW and adopt several conventions. I'd love to be able to use CSS instead of gtk-resource files to colourize my widget sets - and I refuse to use "gtk themes", and I don't enjoy if upstream developers impose their mindset on me (and my apps) when they don't really want to learn from the www. (This is a generalization, I am well aware that GUIs are a lot of work, with many boring bugs to fix in the long run) Sometimes I think it would be cool to have a dedicated Ruby GUI team, completely spending time on Ruby + GUI only. Hey ... just a X-Mas wish ... something like Squeak or Gambas for Ruby would be kinda neat, but I don't think that would happen :) -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.