From: Intransition Date: 2010-05-08T09:45:56+09:00 Subject: Re: Is Ruby ready to embrace new Linux face and UI realities? On May 7, 5:14 pm, Igor Pirnovar wrote: > Related to the above, I have two questions: > > (1) > Does anybody know what is the status of Ruby 1.9.1, Ruby/Gtk and GNOME-2 > in Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid) and what are the plans for integration with > future releases of GNOME 3.x. I guess, we still have a year before that > happens, but that does not make me any less concerned, since there > continued to be rather unpleasant surprises for some of us, who wanted > to work with Ruby/Gtk on Ubuntu? > > (2) > Will the shift to  GNOME 3.0 shell in future Linux releases effect > Ruby/Gtk and Ruby/Cairo? I do not know about GNOME 3, but I have always been under the impression that the ruby-gnome 2 bindings were pretty good. My use of them, albeit admittedly light and a while ago, was excellent. Honestly, if I could get some funding to do it I would work on GUtopIa (http://github.com/rubyworks/gutopia), between that and Shoes maybe some nails could finally put in the Ruby GUI complaints that continually reoccur. But it's a big project and I simply can't devote that kind of time and energy for freebees anymore.