Re: Is Ruby ready to embrace new Linux face and UI realities?

Thank you, for your suggestions.  Roger, yours might be particularly 
insightful. However, I am more interested in pure X.org, GTK, GNOME and 
Cairo versions.  It is likely that these will catch up with Apple's far 
too long domination in this area, within a year or so. With all due 
respect to multitude of choices, one can find for Ruby GUIs, I strongly 
believe the only one that has a chance to minimiye if not eliminate 
Apple's domination is Ruby/Gtk/GNOME on native Linux platforms. But 
currently there are far too many discrepancies and bugs in Ruby Gtk 
implementation. When, more than a year ago, I was writing the "Ruby/GTK2 
Tutorial" (http://ruby-gnome2.sourceforge.jp/hiki.cgi?tut-gtk) I 
discovered  many problems in Ruby implementation.  You can find most of 
the trouble areas in the tutorial table of contents, which I marked with 
the exclamation mark signs. I think time has come, to address these 
problems, and I am looking for ways to get involved in trying to help 
and if possible contribute to the project. However, I am afraid, that 
the spirit of the nineties is gone, and what Thomas Sawyer (7rans) said 
perfectly exposes the spirit which represents an undeniable problem.

Because of this I believe, that today we would have much better chances 
of getting anything done under the umbrella of a well coordinated semi 
commercial effort, as Thomas has hinted. But in that case, we'd be 
better off addressing also the question of modernising X, and perhaps 
take it over from the IBM & Co. bunch, who I believe are doing far too 
little in this respect. I am very much in favour of getting Ubuntu's 
Mark Shuttleworth involved. It should not be hard to convince him, that 
a Ruby is more superior and a better fit to handle GUI as well as OS 
maintenance, and indeed development issues than Python. There should be 
enough evidence of that. I believe a strong case could be built on what 
I hinted in my opening statement. Namely, that Cocoa's design is 
superior to that of X.org / Gtk. Particularly important fact here is 
that Ruby feels very natural and far better implementation language than 
Objective-C in that environment. A language like Ruby, would eliminate 
most of the unnecessary clutter in Cocoa Foundation library. Also Cairo 
should be made integral part of X or Gtk. I guess I am advocating a 
substantial rewrites in both Ruby and X, to reflect on the superior 
Cocoa design and particularly adopting many of its design patterns, but 
avoid the unnecessary complexity, Apple created coupling Cocoa with the 
external requirements imposed by the Interface Builder.

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